Search results for "Greek alphabet" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Twice when the phrase ... first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed to the cross ... the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" (King James ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- | type = Alphabet | typedesc = (non-linear writing) ... advocated the use of a type of string alphabet, where knots were used to ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet, which is a modified ... and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha and beta in turn ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Bible, and inventor of the first Gothic alphabet. He was probably descended ... In Moesia, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- to ordering according to letters of the alphabet. Collating lists of words ... the conventional order of letters in an alphabet or abjad (most of which ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- oldest) known samples of the use of the Greek alphabet. is written in an archaic form of the Greek alphabet, with some letter shapes ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- half dozen demotic glyphs added to the Greek alphabet when writing Coptic; ... began to write exclusively with the Greek alphabet. Seven letters were borrowed ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- to set the foundations for the Cyrillic alphabet and Bulgarian Christian culture. ... Another story mentions a Greek slave in the ruler's court. ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- script, an important precursor to the true alphabet. Ugarit's ... originated the cuneiform-based Ugaritic alphabet around 1400 B.C.E. It consisted ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- and may evolve to develop syllabaries; an alphabet provides symbols for all ... and Runes. Other descendants from the Greek alphabet include the Cyrillic ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- Jewish version of the Torah in its alphabet, linguistic usage, and its ... Written in the Samaritan alphabet, which is believed to be an ancient ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- "time writing," derives from the Greek words chronos ("time ... ones from 90 upwards because in the Greek alphabet there is no equivalent ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Examples of wavelike phenomena are light, water waves, and sound waves. ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Lepsius and Friedericke Glaser. He studied Greek and Roman archaeology at ... was likewise written in Egyptian, Demotic, and Greek. Lepsius was president ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- #that the alphabet consists of forty letters, including signs for ... the kings' names, which he knew from Greek historical texts. Step by ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- on for the rest of his life. Following the Greek legend of the Cretan King ... Evans' interest in the island of Crete, which according to the ...10 KB (1,447 words) - 12:20, 7 November 2021
- ) were two Byzantine Greek Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ... which more closely resembled the Greek alphabet. It has been attributed ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... with the history and diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet. ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- Simonides of Ceos (ca. 556 B.C.E. – 469 B.C.E.), Greek lyric poet ... ο, ω), afterwards adopted in the Ionic alphabet that came into general use ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
