δέλτα: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=1<br />indecl., [[fourth]] [[letter]] of the Gr. alph.: as [[numeral]], δ' = [[τέσσαρες]] and [[τέταρτος]], but ,δ = 4000.<br /><b class="num">I.</b> δ is the medial dental [[mute]], [[between]] the [[tenuis]] τ and the aspirate θ.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> changes of δ in the dialects:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> aeolic [[into]] β, as [[σάμβαλον]] for [[σάνδαλον]]:— [[reversely]], [[ὀβελός]] becomes [[ὀδελός]] in doric<br /><b class="num">2.</b> aeolic or doric [[into]] ζ, or ζ [[into]] δ and σδ, v. [[ζῆτα]] II. 2<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[into]] θ, as [[ψεῦδος]] [[ψύθος]].<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[into]] λ, as [[δαήρ]], Lat. [[levir]], [[δάκρυ]] lacryma, [[δασύς]] [[λάσιος]].<br /><b class="num">5.</b> [[into]] ς, as [[ὀδμή]] [[ὀσμή]], [[ἴδμεν]] [[ἴσμεν]].<br /><b class="num">6.</b> [[sometimes]] δ is inserted to [[give]] a [[fuller]] [[sound]], ([[ἀνήρ]]) ἀνέρος [[ἀνδρός]].<br /><b class="num">7.</b> δ is [[sometimes]] [[lost]], cf. [[διωγμός]], [[δίωξις]] with [[ἰωκή]].<br /><b class="num">8.</b> it [[sometimes]] represents j. (y), as in ἤδη or δή, Lat. jam. <br />2<br />[[anything]] shaped like a Δ, a [[name]] for islands formed by the mouths of [[large]] rivers, as the [[Nile]], Hdt.