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The capital letter upsilon (Υ) can occur in different stylistic variants, with the upper strokes either straight like a Latin Y, or slightly curled. The symbol ϒ (U+03D2) is designated specifically for the curled form (), used as a technical symbol, e.g. in physics.
Greek Letters today are used for writing modern greek and symbols in mathematics and science. The Greek alphabet has its origin in the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Gothic, Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Coptic, and Latin alphabets.
Greek alphabet letters are used as math and science symbols.
The usage of Y in Latin dates back to the first century BC. It was used to transcribe loanwords from Greek, so it was not a native sound of Latin and was usually pronounced /u/ or /i/. The latter pronunciation was the most common in the Classical period and was used mostly by uneducated people.
This table gives the Greek letters, their names, equivalent English letters, and tips for pronouncing those letters which are pronounced differently from the equivalent English letters. Table Font: Use Font. Α.
What is the Greek alphabet? Our complete guide lists the Greek letters, how they're pronounced, and how they correspond to English.
Greek Letter Ypsilon (Ύψιλον - Υ) "Long U". Its upper-case form came into English as an almost-a-vowel letter "y" (a short "long e"). It also went into Latin as "V", which has the "ooh" sound ("vir quisque vir").
There are no silent "e" type letters. If a letter is in the word, it is pronounced. And letters are always pronounced the same way, except for a few diphthongs. Here's a quick guide to the Greek alphabet, with each letter, how its name is pronounced, and tips for pronouncing it in words.
Lower-case upsilon (ὖ ψιλόν), the 20th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the close back rounded vowel /u/ and later the close front rounded vowel /y/. It is preceded by τ and followed by φ.
noun. up· si· lon ˈüp-sə-ˌlän ˈyüp-. ˈəp-, -lən, British usually yüp-ˈsī-lən. 1. : the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table. 2. : any of a group of unstable electrically neutral elementary particles of the meson family that have a mass about 10 times that of a proton.