δέλτα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, indecl., <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> the [[letter]] [[delta]] ([[δέλτα]]): gen. δέλτατος <span class="bibl">Democr.20</span>. (Hebr. <b class="b2">dāleth</b> '[[door]]'.) </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> anything shaped like a [[Δ]], esp. [[island formed by the mouths of a large river]], as the [[Nile]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.13</span>, etc.; of the Indus, <span class="bibl">Str.15.1.33</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">An.</span>5.4.1</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> adverbially, δ. παρατετιλμέναι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>151</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[δελτωτόν]], <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Tetr.</span>27</span>.</span>

|dgtxt=τό<br /><b class="num">• Morfología:</b> [indecl., pero gen. δέλτατος Democr.B 20]<br /><b class="num">1</b> [[delta]] cuarta letra del alfabeto gr., Democr.l.c., Achae.33, Pl.<i>Cra</i>.427a, <i>IKnidos</i> 203 (heleníst.), Luc.<i>Iud.Voc</i>.10, S.E.<i>M</i>.9.244, <i>AP</i> 1.108, κάμηλον ... κεχαραγμένον ἐπὶ μηρῷ δεξιῷ δ. καὶ [[ἰῶτα]] <i>BGU</i> 468.26 (II d.C.).<br /><b class="num">2</b> [[pubis]] femenino, Ar.<i>Lys</i>.151.<br /><b class="num">3</b> astr., la constelación [[del Triángulo]] Ptol.<i>Tetr</i>.1.9.19 (var.).<br /><b class="num">4</b> arq. [[frontón]] ἀετὸς [[προπύλαιος]]· τὸ [[νῦν]] λεγόμενον [[ἀέτωμα]] ἢ δ. <i>AB</i> 202.20.<br /><b class="num">• Etimología:</b> Prést. de una lengua semít., cf. hebr. <i>dáleth</i>.