ταῦ
See also: ταυ
Ancient Greek
previous σῖγμα
letter |
following ὖ ψιλόν
letter | |
| Τ τ – English: tau | ||
Etymology
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤕 (t /taw/).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tâu̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /taw/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /taβ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tav/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tav/
Noun
ταῦ • (taû) n (indeclinable)
- tau, the name for the nineteenth letter Τ, τ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
Descendants
See also
- Appendix:Greek alphabet
References
- “ταῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ταῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ταῦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Further reading
- tau (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ελληνικό αλφάβητο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el