eta
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- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈiːtə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈeɪtə//
- //ˈeɪtə//
The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
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The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked — a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
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A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
Herkunft
From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).
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A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
Herkunft
From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).
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Variante von itaAlternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”).
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- etas
eta · The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
eternal · Lasting forever; unending.eternally · For eternity; forever.eternity · Existence without end, infinite time.