di·gam·ma (d -g m  )n. A letter occurring in certain early forms of Greek and transliterated in English as w. [Latin, from Greek : di-, two; see di-1 + gamma, gamma (because its shape resembles two gammas); see gamma.] |
digamma [daɪˈgæmə]
n
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a letter of the Greek alphabet (Ϝ) that became obsolete before the classical period of the language. It represented a semivowel like English W and was used as a numeral in later stages of written Greek, and passed into the Roman alphabet as F
[via Latin from Greek, from di-1 + gamma; from its shape, which suggests one gamma upon another]
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