different between digamma vs zeta

English

Etymology

di- +? gamma, from its shape resembling two stacked capital gammas (?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da???æm?/
• Rhymes: -æm?

Noun

digamma (plural digammas)

1. Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: ?, ?

Translations

See also

• digamma function
• Appendix:Greek alphabet
• Archaic Greek alphabet:

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /di??am.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di??am.ma/

Noun

digamma f (plural digammes)

1. Digamma; the obsolete Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di??m??/, [?di??m??]
• Rhymes: -i??m??
• Syllabification: di?gam?ma

Noun

digamma

1. digamma

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.?a.ma/

Noun

digamma m (plural digamma)

1. digamma (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “digamma” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

digamma m (invariable)

1. digamma (Greek letter)

Romanian

Etymology

From French digamma.

Noun

digamma f (uncountable)

1. digamma

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di??ama/, [d?i???a.ma]

Noun

digamma f (plural digammas)

1. digamma; the Greek letter ?, ?

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta). Doublet of zed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?zi?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ze?t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?, -e?t?

Noun

zeta (plural zetas)

1. The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (? (Z), ? (z)) preceded by epsilon (? (E), ? (e)) and followed by eta, (? (I), ? (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (? (W), ? (w))
2. (mathematics) A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.

   Zeta of 3 is irrational

Translations

Anagrams

• zate

Asturian

Alternative forms

• ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?e.ta/

Etymology 1

Noun

zeta inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish seda (“silk”).

Noun

zeta inan

1. silk

Declension

Further reading

• “zeta” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “zeta” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?z?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?z?.ta/

Noun

zeta f (plural zetes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. The Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Further reading

• “zeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “zeta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “zeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “zeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tset?/, [?ts?e?t??]
• IPA^(key): /?zet?/, [?ze?t??]
• Rhymes: -et?
• Syllabification: ze?ta

Noun

zeta

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Declension

Galician

Alternative forms

• ceta

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Pronunciation

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

1. zee/zed (name of the letter Z, z)

Hawaiian

Noun

zeta

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• seta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??ta/
• Rhymes: -??ta
• Homophone: seta

Noun

zeta f (genitive singular zetu, nominative plural zetur)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. zeta (Greek letter)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From the Latin z?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta), from Hebrew ???? (zayin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?.ta/
• Rhymes: -?ta
• Hyphenation: zè?ta

Noun

zeta m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.; zed, zee
2. The name of the Greek script letter ?/?; zeta

Derived terms

• dalla a alla zeta

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ze?.ta/, [?d??z?e?t?ä]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?ze?.ta/, [?ze?ta]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d?ze.ta/, [?d??z???t??]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

z?ta f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Greek letter zeta (?, ?).
2. The name of the letter Z.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ?, b?, c?, d?, ?, ef, g?, h? / *acca, ?, k?, el, em, en, ?, p?, k?, er, es, t?, ?, ix / ?x / ex, ? / ? graeca / ?ps?lon, z?ta

References

• zeta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zeta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• zeta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Latin Grammar (3rd ed., 1895), 1:

  The Latin names for the letters… For Y the sound was used, for Z the Greek name (z?ta).

Etymology 2

In third- and fourth-century writings of the Late Latin period, Z often represented word-initial prevocalic di.

Noun

z?ta f (genitive z?tae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) manuscript variant of diaeta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dzeta (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta m (plural zetas)

1. zeta (name of the Greek letter ?, ?)

See also

• zê

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

z?ta n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. zeta; the Greek letter ?, ?

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

zeta (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/accusative singular of zet

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??eta/, [??e.t?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?seta/, [?se.t?a]
• Homophone: seta (non-Castilian)

Etymology 1

From Latin z?ta or its etymon, Ancient Greek ???? (zêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

1. the letter Z
2. zeta; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonyms: dseda, dseta

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (thêta).

Noun

zeta f (plural zetas)

1. theta; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonyms: theta, tita

Further reading

• “zeta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.