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|Definition=<b class="b3">ὦ, τό,</b> twenty-fourth and last letter of the Ionic alphabet, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἀπὸ ἄλφα ἕως .ω. <span class="title">Gloss.</span>iii 283 (ix A. D.); thence used as a symbol of [[the end]], [[the last]], <b class="b3">ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ</b> (not <b class="b3">τὸ ὦ μέγα</b>) <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Apoc.</span>1.8</span>, al.:—as a numeral ώ = <span class="bibl">800</span>, but [[ωνυμ]] = <span class="bibl">800</span>,<span class="bibl">000</span>. The epichoric Att. and other alphabets of the Inscrr. had used o in differently to represent the sounds of the later ο and ω : [[Ω]] is a differentiated form of ο, and, though usually = ω, was used in the Ionic islands of Paros, Thasos, and Siphnos with the value ο, while O or O represented the sound ω. The name of the letter was <b class="b3">τὸ ὦ</b> (perispom. acc. to Hellad. ap. Phot.<span class="bibl">p.530B.</span>), cf. <span class="bibl">Achae.33.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>244d</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cra.</span> 420b</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>203c</span>: after the loss of the distinction between long and short vowels, ο and ω had the same pronunciation; they begin to be confused in Papyri of iii B. C. (οἰκωνόμου <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRev.Laws</span> 50.22</span> (iii B. C.)), but the name ω μέγα appears first in later Greek, Theognost.<span class="title">Can.</span> 13; κατὰ σχῆμα διπλοῦ ω ἤτοι μεγάλου <span class="bibl">Eust.869.26</span>; οἱ δὲ περὶ Ἀρίσταρχον αὐτὸ τὸ ποτήριον ω μέγα εἶναί φασιν, ὁποῖν ἴσως τὸ κατὰ δύο ῡ ἐσχηματισμένον <span class="bibl">Id.869.29</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν τῷ ω μεγάλῳ</b> under [[omega]] (in a lexicon), <span class="bibl">Id.1828.49</span>: διὰ τοῠ ω μεγάλου <span class="bibl">Hdn.<span class="title">Epim.</span>208</span>.</span>