θῆτα: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Θ, θ, [[θῆτα]], τό, indecl., [[eighth]] [[letter]] of the Gr. [[alphabet]]: as [[numeral]] θ# = [[ἐννέα]], [[ἔνατος]], but #22θ = 90000. —θ is the aspirated dental [[mute]], [[related]] to the [[tenuis]] τ and the medial δ. θ is [[sometimes]] represented by φ, as [[θλάω]] [[φλάω]]; so in Lat. θήρ (aeolic φήρ) [[fera]]; [[θύρα]] [[fores]]; byβ, as ἐ-ρυθρός [[ruber]], [[οὖθαρ]] [[uber]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> changes of θ in the Gr. dialects:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[Lacon]]., [[into]] ς, as [[σάλασσα]] [[σεῖος]] [[Ἀσάνα]] [[παρσένος]] for [[θάλασσα]] [[θεῖος]] [[Ἀθάνα]] [[παρθένος]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> aeolic and doric [[into]] τ, as [[αὖτις]] [[ἐντεῦθεν]] for [[αὖθις]] [[ἐντεῦθεν]].<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[when]] θ was [[repeated]] in two foll. syllables, the [[former]] became τ, as [[Ἀτθίς]].