| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| digamma |
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| SYLLABICATION: | di·gam·ma |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -g m  |
| NOUN: | A letter occurring in certain early forms of Greek and transliterated in English as w. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, from Greek : di-, two; see di–1 + gamma, gamma (because its shape resembles two gammas); see gamma.
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