![]() ![]() The name Ωμέγα is Byzantine in Classical Greek, the letter was called ō ( ὦ) (pronounced /ɔ̂ː/), whereas the omicron was called ou ( οὖ) (pronounced /ôː/). The Dorian city of Knidos as well as a few Aegean islands, namely Paros, Thasos and Melos, chose the exact opposite innovation, using a broken-up circle for the short and a closed circle for the long /o/. It is a variant of omicron (Ο), broken up at the side ( ), with the edges subsequently turned outward (, ,, ). It was introduced in the late 7th century BC in the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to denote a long open-mid back rounded vowel. Ω was not part of the early (8th century BC) Greek alphabets. The letter omega is transliterated into a Latin-script alphabet as ō or simply o.Īs the final letter in the Greek alphabet, omega is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet see Alpha and Omega. In Modern Greek, both omega and omicron represent the mid back rounded vowel IPA: or IPA. In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Ω represented a long open-mid back rounded vowel IPA:, comparable to the "aw" of the English word raw in dialects without the cot–caught merger, in contrast to omicron which represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA:, and the digraph ου which represented the long close-mid back rounded vowel IPA. The word literally means "great O" ( ō mega, mega meaning "great"), as opposed to omicron, which means "little O" ( o mikron, micron meaning "little"). In the Greek numeric system/ isopsephy ( gematria), it has a value of 800. Omega ( / oʊ ˈ m iː ɡ ə, oʊ ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə, oʊ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə, ə ˈ m iː ɡ ə/ capital: Ω, lowercase: ω Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and final letter in the Greek alphabet.
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