δέλτα

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤃‎ (dalet).

δέλτᾰ • (délta) n (indeclinable)

1. delta, the name for the fourth letter Δ, δ of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
   • Anecdota Bekkeri 781
2. anything shaped like a Δ
   1. river delta
      • Herodotus, 2 13
      • Strabo, Geography 701
      • Arrian 5.4
   2. vulva
      • Aristophanes, Lysistrata 151

• Latin: deltidium (New Latin)

• δέλτα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δέλτα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δέλτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δέλτα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)

From Ancient Greek δέλτᾰ (délta).

• IPA^(key): /ˈðelta/

δέλτα • (délta) n (indeclinable)

1. delta, the fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
2. river delta

• Appendix:Greek alphabet (Appendix:Greek alphabet)

• δέλτα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el