Phi

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Greek letter phi serif + sans.svg
Phi
pronunciation
antique [ p h ]
modern [ f ]
Equivalents
Latin Ff
Cyrillic Фф
Hebrew פ
Arabic
Phoenician ?
transcription
From the ancient world ph
From the modern f
Coding
Capitals
Unicode number U + 03A6
Unicode name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI
HTML & # 934;
HTML entity ?
Minuscule
Unicode number U + 03C6
Unicode name GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
HTML & # 966;
HTML entity ?
variant
Unicode number U + 03D5
Unicode name GREEK PHI SYMBOL
HTML & # 981;
HTML entity

The Phi ( Greek neuter Φι , Majuskel Φ respectively , minuscule φ ( ) or φ ( ), usual pronunciation of the designation of the letter: [fi:]) is the 21 letter of the Greek alphabet , and has according to the Milesian system the numerical value 500 .

use

Φ - ph / f

In ancient Greek, the phi was not pronounced as [f], but as aspirated p [p h ]. When Greek words were adopted into Latin, loanwords , especially technical names and proper names, which contained the letter Φ, were transcribed with “p” or “ph”, which the scribes tried to reproduce this sound, which Latin did not know. Later, in the first centuries after Christ, spellings with "f" appeared for the first time in such loanwords, which indicates that the Phi in Greek had become a fricative ( fricative ). In the second century, "P (h) ilippus" was replaced by "Filippus". In modern Greek and in school pronunciation of ancient Greek , the pronunciation is [f]. In German words of Greek origin that contain the sequence of letters “ph” (e.g. philology, philosophy ), “ph” can be replaced by “f” under certain conditions.

Web links

Wiktionary: Phi  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GW Krantz, DE Walter (Ed.): A manual of acarology . Lubbock (Texas) 2009, ISBN 978-0-89672-620-8 .