ταῦ

See also: ταυ

Ancient Greek

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Τ τ   –   English: tau

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤕 (t /⁠taw⁠/).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tâu̯/ → /taβ/ → /tav/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tâu̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /taw/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /taβ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tav/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tav/

Noun

ταῦ • (taû) n (indeclinable)

1. tau, the name for the nineteenth letter Τ, τ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

Descendants

• English: tau
• Greek: ταυ (taf)

See also

• Appendix:Greek alphabet

References

• “ταῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ταῦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Further reading

• tau (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ελληνικό αλφάβητο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el