Definitions
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- adjective Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound.
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- adjective Having the
digamma or its representativeletter orsound .
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Examples
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Græco nostro [Greek: Aiôn], interposito digammate Æolico, ortum, est
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Yet 'who' is properly the same word and pronunciation, as 'ho' with the digammate prefix, and as
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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_k_ of the root into the _v_ was evidently the work of the digammate power, and hence we find the _icus_ and _ivus_ indifferently as finals in Latin.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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