digammas

Meaning of digammas

plural noun

the sixth letter of the early Greek alphabet ( Ϝ, ϝ ), probably pronounced as ‘w’. It became obsolete before the Classical period.

late 17th century: via Latin from Greek, from di- ‘twice’ + gamma (because of the shape of the letter, resembling gamma (Γ) with an extra stroke).

Information about digammas

Hyphenation of digammas

digam-mas

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • digammas is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with digammas

Gammas, Lammas, cammas, engrammas, gammas, grammas, grandmammas, lammas, mammas, shammas, analemmas, axilemmas, axolemmas, dilemmas, emmas, lemmas, maremmas, neurilemmas, neurolemmas, oolemmas, plasmalemmas, polylemmas, sarcolemmas, stemmas, stremmas, trilemmas, limmas, commas, mommas, gummas, summas, ummas

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