1-A. List of the greek alphabet



It is important to understand correlation between greek and roman alphabet, because transliteration from greek to roman alphabet, or vice versa, is helpful for understanding etymology of medical terminology.

lower caseupper casenamecorresponding
roman alphabet
A alphaa
B betab
gammag
deltad
E epsilone (short vowel)
Z zetaz
H etae (long vowel)
thetath
I iotai
K kappak
lambdal
M mum
N nun
xiks, x
O omicrono (short vowel)
pip
P rhor, rh*
, ** sigmas
T taut
upsilony
phiph
X chich
psips
omegao (long vowel)


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