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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">hte letter delta, delta of a river</b><br />Other forms: Gen. <b class="b3">δέλτατος</b> Demokr. 20; further uninflected.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">δελτωτός</b> <b class="b2">formed like the δέλτα</b> (Arat., Eratosth.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.<br />Etymology: From Semitic; cf. Hebr. [[dāleth]], properly [[gate]]; s. Schwyzer 140 γ. Because of the formal identity referred to the Delta of the Nile (Hdt.), the Indus (Str., Arr.) and other rivers; also to the <b class="b3">αἰδοῖον γυναικεῖον</b> (Ar. Lys. 151); s. Schulze KZ 39, 612 = Kl. Schr. 365, Taillardat, Images d'Aristophane $ 120.; Old-indian parallel in Pischel KZ 41, 176ff. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">hte letter delta, delta of a river</b><br />Other forms: Gen. <b class="b3">δέλτατος</b> Demokr. 20; further uninflected.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">δελτωτός</b> <b class="b2">formed like the δέλτα</b> (Arat., Eratosth.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.<br />Etymology: From Semitic; cf. Hebr. [[dāleth]], properly [[gate]]; s. Schwyzer 140 γ. Because of the formal identity referred to the Delta of the Nile (Hdt.), the Indus (Str., Arr.) and other rivers; also to the <b class="b3">αἰδοῖον γυναικεῖον</b> (Ar. Lys. 151); s. Schulze KZ 39, 612 = Kl. Schr. 365, Taillardat, Images d'Aristophane $ 120.; Old-indian parallel in Pischel KZ 41, 176ff. | ||
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|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. | |||
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