Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphaoet (O, o).
Wiktionary
- n. the name for the 15th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 16th in Ancient and Old Greek.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Lit., the little, or short, O, o; the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Greek o mīkron, small o (because of its being a short vowel in Greek) : o, the letter o + mīkron, neuter of mīkros, small. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Thunderbolt who heralded the Silver Age with his 1956 revival had his particles accelerated to the speed of light by blue omicron rays ... but that's another story.”
“(It's only later, during AC's "Catastrophe For Two Worlds" event, in an attempt to simplify the morass of rationales for superpowers, that the Prof's "primalised matter" is revealed to be none other than the proteanite toxic to Overman, but in an omicron-irradiated form harmless to the Man of the Future.)”
“The Greek scholar will look to the Greek letters for Jesus: "iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma," which is variously transliterated IHSOYS or IHCOYC, the latter when converted to Latin letters using the common curved sigma variant.”
“I was paid (through an adult intermediary because of child labor laws) as a technical proofreader for Chemical Abstracts (knowing an o from an omicron AND knowing the molecule in question was a key).”
“You know, the weird thing is I looked at that earlier thinking something wasn't right and completely missed that that last vowel was an omicron, not an alpha. heh.”
“In the scanned text should the omicron in o thumas have a rough breathing?”
“Filioque but never και του Υιου”
“The colored tracings resemble those in the church on the Mount of Olives, and on one side are the large Greek letters [Theta] [epsilon] [omicron] [nu].”
“[Transcriber's note: The Greek words in the above paragraph were transliterated as follows: _nomos_ -- nu, omicron, mu, omicron, final sigma; _ho_ -- (rough breathing mark), omicron]”
“So for instance alpha-iota comes after epsilon; epsilon-iota, eta-iota come together after zeta, omega after omicron, and so on.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘omicron’.
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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Greek Alphabet
The letters in the Greek alphabet, with a bit of history on each one.
omega, psi, chi, phi, upsilon, tau, sigma, rho, pi, omicron, xi, nu and 12 more...
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abc's
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu and 12 more...
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