eta

Definition

The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἦτα (êta).

Example Sentences

• "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."