Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Romanization of Greek

Index Romanization of Greek

Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet. [1]

145 relations: Acute accent, ALA-LC romanization, Alexander the Great, Alpha, Alphabet, American Library Association, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Apostrophe, Arabic numerals, Archaic Greek alphabets, Argos, Aspirated consonant, Attic numerals, B, Beta, Beta Code, BGN/PCGN romanization, Breve, Byzantium, Cedilla, Chi (letter), Circumflex, Classical compound, Claude Garamond, Colon (punctuation), Comma, Corinth, Cyclades, Cyrillization of Greek, Delta (letter), Demetrius, Diacritic, Diaeresis (diacritic), Digamma, Digraph (orthography), Diphthong, Dollar sign, English alphabet, English orthography, English words of Greek origin, Epsilon, Eta, Etruscan numerals, Exclamation mark, Fall of Constantinople, Font, Full stop, Gamma, Gortyn, ..., Grammatical gender, Grave accent, Grecs du roi, Greece, Greek alphabet, Greek diacritics, Greek language, Greek ligatures, Greek name, Greek numerals, Greek orthography, Greeklish, H, Hellenic Organization for Standardization, Heta, Hyphen, Hyphen-minus, International Organization for Standardization, Interpunct, Iota, ISO 843, J, Johannes, John (given name), Kappa, Koppa (letter), L, Lambda, Latin, Latin alphabet, Latin script, Library of Congress, Linguistics, List of Greek place names, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, Macron (diacritic), Medieval Greek, Megara, Milos, Modern Greek, Mojibake, Montreal, Mu (letter), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nu (letter), Obelism, Omega, Omicron, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, Phi, Pi (letter), Pitch-accent language, Plus and minus signs, Pronunciation, Psi (letter), Punctuation, Question mark, Rho, Roman numerals, Romanization, Rough breathing, S, Sacred, Saint, Sampi, San (letter), Santorini, Scriptio continua, Semicolon, Sigma, Slash (punctuation), Space (punctuation), Tau, Telephony, Theta, Tie (typography), Transcription (linguistics), Translation, Transliteration, Typeface, Typographic ligature, United Nations, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, United States Board on Geographic Names, Upsilon, V, Voiced bilabial stop, Voiced labiodental fricative, Voiceless alveolar fricative, Voiceless glottal fricative, Voiceless velar stop, Vowel length, Xi (letter), Yannis, Zeta. Expand index (95 more) »

Acute accent

The acute accent (´) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Acute accent · See more »

ALA-LC romanization

ALA-LC (American Library Association - Library of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and ALA-LC romanization · See more »

Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Alexander the Great · See more »

Alpha

Alpha (uppercase, lowercase; ἄλφα, álpha, modern pronunciation álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Alpha · See more »

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Alphabet · See more »

American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and American Library Association · See more »

Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Ancient Greek · See more »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Ancient Rome · See more »

Apostrophe

The apostrophe ( ' or) character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Apostrophe · See more »

Arabic numerals

Arabic numerals, also called Hindu–Arabic numerals, are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, based on the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Arabic numerals · See more »

Archaic Greek alphabets

Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today, around 400 BC.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Archaic Greek alphabets · See more »

Argos

Argos (Modern Greek: Άργος; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος) is a city in Argolis, the Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Argos · See more »

Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Aspirated consonant · See more »

Attic numerals

Attic numerals were used by the ancient Greeks, possibly from the 7th century BC.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Attic numerals · See more »

B

B or b (pronounced) is the second letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and B · See more »

Beta

Beta (uppercase, lowercase, or cursive; bē̂ta or βήτα) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Beta · See more »

Beta Code

Beta Code is a method of representing, using only ASCII characters, characters and formatting found in ancient Greek texts (and other ancient languages).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Beta Code · See more »

BGN/PCGN romanization

BGN/PCGN romanization refers to the systems for romanization (transliteration into the Latin script) and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and BGN/PCGN romanization · See more »

Breve

A breve (less often;; neuter form of the Latin brevis “short, brief”) is the diacritic mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Breve · See more »

Byzantium

Byzantium or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) was an ancient Greek colony in early antiquity that later became Constantinople, and later Istanbul.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Byzantium · See more »

Cedilla

A cedilla (from Spanish), also known as cedilha (from Portuguese) or cédille (from French), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Cedilla · See more »

Chi (letter)

Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; χῖ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced or in English.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Chi (letter) · See more »

Circumflex

The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Circumflex · See more »

Classical compound

Classical compounds and neoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical Latin or ancient Greek roots.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Classical compound · See more »

Claude Garamond

Claude Garamont (– 1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Claude Garamond · See more »

Colon (punctuation)

The colon is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Colon (punctuation) · See more »

Comma

The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Comma · See more »

Corinth

Corinth (Κόρινθος, Kórinthos) is an ancient city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Corinth · See more »

Cyclades

The Cyclades (Κυκλάδες) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Cyclades · See more »

Cyrillization of Greek

Cyrillization of Greek refers to the transcription or transliteration of text from the Greek alphabet to the Cyrillic script.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Cyrillization of Greek · See more »

Delta (letter)

Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ or 𝛿; δέλτα délta) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Delta (letter) · See more »

Demetrius

Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος), meaning "devoted to Demeter." Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Demitri, Dhimitër, and Dimitrije, in addition to other forms (such as Russian Dmitri) descended from it.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Demetrius · See more »

Diacritic

A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Diacritic · See more »

Diaeresis (diacritic)

The diaeresis (plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma (also: trema) or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Diaeresis (diacritic) · See more »

Digamma

Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Digamma · See more »

Digraph (orthography)

A digraph or digram (from the δίς dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Digraph (orthography) · See more »

Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Diphthong · See more »

Dollar sign

The dollar sign ($ or) is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various units of currency around the world.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Dollar sign · See more »

English alphabet

The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: The same letters constitute the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and English alphabet · See more »

English orthography

English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and English orthography · See more »

English words of Greek origin

The Greek language has contributed to the English vocabulary in five main ways.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and English words of Greek origin · See more »

Epsilon

Epsilon (uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or lunate ϵ; έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid<!-- not close-mid, see Arvanti (1999) - Illustrations of the IPA: Modern Greek. --> front unrounded vowel.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Epsilon · See more »

Eta

Eta (uppercase, lowercase; ἦτα ē̂ta or ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Eta · See more »

Etruscan numerals

The Etruscan numerals were used by the ancient Etruscans.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Etruscan numerals · See more »

Exclamation mark

The exclamation mark (British English) or exclamation point (some dialects of American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), or show emphasis, and often marks the end of a sentence.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Exclamation mark · See more »

Fall of Constantinople

The Fall of Constantinople (Ἅλωσις τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Halōsis tēs Kōnstantinoupoleōs; İstanbul'un Fethi Conquest of Istanbul) was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May 1453.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Fall of Constantinople · See more »

Font

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Font · See more »

Full stop

The full point or full stop (British and broader Commonwealth English) or period (North American English) is a punctuation mark.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Full stop · See more »

Gamma

Gamma (uppercase, lowercase; gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Gamma · See more »

Gortyn

Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα) is a municipality and an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete, 45 km away from the modern capital Heraklion.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Gortyn · See more »

Grammatical gender

In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Grammatical gender · See more »

Grave accent

The grave accent (`) is a diacritical mark in many written languages, including Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Dutch, Emilian-Romagnol, French, West Frisian, Greek (until 1982; see polytonic orthography), Haitian Creole, Italian, Mohawk, Occitan, Portuguese, Ligurian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Welsh, Romansh, and Yoruba.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Grave accent · See more »

Grecs du roi

Les grecs du roi are a celebrated Greek typeface designed by Claude Garamond in 1541 and containing a very large number of ligatures.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Grecs du roi · See more »

Greece

No description.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greece · See more »

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek alphabet · See more »

Greek diacritics

Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek diacritics · See more »

Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek language · See more »

Greek ligatures

Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek ligatures · See more »

Greek name

In the modern world, personal names among people of Greek language and culture generally consist of a given name, a patronymic and a family name.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek name · See more »

Greek numerals

Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek numerals · See more »

Greek orthography

The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greek orthography · See more »

Greeklish

Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is the Greek language written using the Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Greeklish · See more »

H

H (named aitch or, regionally, haitch, plural aitches)"H" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "aitch" or "haitch", op.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and H · See more »

Hellenic Organization for Standardization

The Hellenic Organization for Standardization (Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τυποποίησης, Ellīnikós Organismós Typopoíīsīs; abbreviated ΕΛΟΤ in Greek and ELOT in English) is the national standards organization for the Hellenic Republic (Greece).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Hellenic Organization for Standardization · See more »

Heta

Heta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter Eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Heta · See more »

Hyphen

The hyphen (‐) is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Hyphen · See more »

Hyphen-minus

The hyphen-minus (-) is a character used in digital documents and computing to represent a hyphen (‐) or a minus sign (−).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Hyphen-minus · See more »

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and International Organization for Standardization · See more »

Interpunct

An interpunct (&middot), also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, and centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Interpunct · See more »

Iota

Iota (uppercase Ι, lowercase ι) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Iota · See more »

ISO 843

ISO 843 is a system for the transliteration of Greek characters into Latin characters.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and ISO 843 · See more »

J

J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and J · See more »

Johannes

Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Johannes · See more »

John (given name)

John is a common masculine given name in the English language of originally Semitic origin.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and John (given name) · See more »

Kappa

Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ϰ; κάππα, káppa) is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Kappa · See more »

Koppa (letter)

Koppa or qoppa (Ϙ, ϙ; as a modern numeral sign) is a letter that was used in early forms of the Greek alphabet, derived from Phoenician qoph.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Koppa (letter) · See more »

L

L (named el) is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet, used in words such as lagoon, lantern, and less.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and L · See more »

Lambda

Lambda, Λ, λ (uppercase Λ, lowercase λ; λάμ(β)δα lám(b)da) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Lambda · See more »

Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Latin · See more »

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Latin alphabet · See more »

Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Latin script · See more »

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Library of Congress · See more »

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Linguistics · See more »

List of Greek place names

This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and List of Greek place names · See more »

List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names · See more »

Macron (diacritic)

A macron is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar placed above a letter, usually a vowel.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Macron (diacritic) · See more »

Medieval Greek

Medieval Greek, also known as Byzantine Greek, is the stage of the Greek language between the end of Classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Medieval Greek · See more »

Megara

Megara (Μέγαρα) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Megara · See more »

Milos

Milos or Melos (Modern Greek: Μήλος; Μῆλος Melos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Milos · See more »

Modern Greek

Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά or Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα "Neo-Hellenic", historically and colloquially also known as Ρωμαίικα "Romaic" or "Roman", and Γραικικά "Greek") refers to the dialects and varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Modern Greek · See more »

Mojibake

Mojibake (文字化け) is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Mojibake · See more »

Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Montreal · See more »

Mu (letter)

Mu (uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek μῦ, μι or μυ—both) or my is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Mu (letter) · See more »

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is both a combat support agency under the United States Department of Defense and an intelligence agency of the United States Intelligence Community, with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · See more »

Nu (letter)

Nu (uppercase Ν lowercase ν; νι ni) or ny is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Nu (letter) · See more »

Obelism

Obelism is the practice of annotating manuscripts with marks set in the margins.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Obelism · See more »

Omega

Omega (capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Omega · See more »

Omicron

Omicron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally "small o": όμικρον back rounded vowel. Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O. The upper-case letter of omicron (O) was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation (representing a function's asymptotic growth rate), but has fallen out of favor because omicron is indistinguishable from the Latin letter O and easily confused with the digit zero (0). Omicron is used to designate the fifteenth star in a constellation group, its ordinal placement a function of both magnitude and position. Such stars include Omicron Andromedae, Omicron Ceti, and Omicron Persei.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Omicron · See more »

Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use

The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) is an independent inter-departmental body in the United Kingdom established in 1919.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use · See more »

Phi

Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; ϕεῖ pheî; φι fi) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Phi · See more »

Pi (letter)

Pi (uppercase Π, lowercase π; πι) is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the sound.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Pi (letter) · See more »

Pitch-accent language

A pitch-accent language is a language that has word-accents—that is, where one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour (linguistic tones) rather than by stress.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Pitch-accent language · See more »

Plus and minus signs

The plus and minus signs (+ and −) are mathematical symbols used to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Plus and minus signs · See more »

Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Pronunciation · See more »

Psi (letter)

Psi (uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ; psi) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Psi (letter) · See more »

Punctuation

Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of handwritten and printed text, whether read silently or aloud.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Punctuation · See more »

Question mark

The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Question mark · See more »

Rho

Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or ϱ; ῥῶ) is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Rho · See more »

Roman numerals

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Roman numerals · See more »

Romanization

Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Romanization · See more »

Rough breathing

In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing (dasỳ pneûma or δασεῖα daseîa; δασεία dasía; Latin spīritus asper), is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or after rho.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Rough breathing · See more »

S

S (named ess, plural esses) is the 19th letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and S · See more »

Sacred

Sacred means revered due to sanctity and is generally the state of being perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity and considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Sacred · See more »

Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Saint · See more »

Sampi

Sampi (modern: ϡ; ancient shapes) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Sampi · See more »

San (letter)

San (Ϻ) was an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and San (letter) · See more »

Santorini

Santorini (Σαντορίνη), classically Thera (English pronunciation), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Santorini · See more »

Scriptio continua

Scriptio continua (Latin for "continuous script"), also known as scriptura continua or scripta continua, is a style of writing without spaces, or other marks between the words or sentences.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Scriptio continua · See more »

Semicolon

The semicolon or semi colon is a punctuation mark that separates major sentence elements.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Semicolon · See more »

Sigma

Sigma (upper-case Σ, lower-case σ, lower-case in word-final position ς; σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Sigma · See more »

Slash (punctuation)

The slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Slash (punctuation) · See more »

Space (punctuation)

In writing, a space (&#32) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Space (punctuation) · See more »

Tau

Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ; ταυ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Tau · See more »

Telephony

Telephony is the field of technology involving the development, application, and deployment of telecommunication services for the purpose of electronic transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Telephony · See more »

Theta

Theta (uppercase Θ or ϴ, lowercase θ (which resembles digit 0 with horizontal line) or ϑ; θῆτα thē̂ta; Modern: θήτα| thī́ta) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Theta · See more »

Tie (typography)

The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Tie (typography) · See more »

Transcription (linguistics)

Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of language in written form.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Transcription (linguistics) · See more »

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Translation · See more »

Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways (such as α → a, д → d, χ → ch, ն → n or æ → e).

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Transliteration · See more »

Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Typeface · See more »

Typographic ligature

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Typographic ligature · See more »

United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and United Nations · See more »

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is one of the nine expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and deals with the national and international standardization of geographical names.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names · See more »

United States Board on Geographic Names

The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and United States Board on Geographic Names · See more »

Upsilon

Upsilon (or; uppercase Υ, lowercase υ; ύψιλον ýpsilon) or ypsilon is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Upsilon · See more »

V

V (named vee) is the 22nd letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and V · See more »

Voiced bilabial stop

The voiced bilabial stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Voiced bilabial stop · See more »

Voiced labiodental fricative

The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Voiced labiodental fricative · See more »

Voiceless alveolar fricative

A voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of fricative consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Voiceless alveolar fricative · See more »

Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition, and sometimes called the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Voiceless glottal fricative · See more »

Voiceless velar stop

The voiceless velar stop or voiceless velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Voiceless velar stop · See more »

Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Vowel length · See more »

Xi (letter)

Xi (uppercase Ξ, lowercase ξ; ξι) is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Xi (letter) · See more »

Yannis

Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common Greek given name, a variant of John (Hebrew) meaning "God is gracious." Variants include Ioannis (Ιωάννης), Yanni (Also Janni), Iannis, Yannakis, Yanis, and the rare Yanno, usually found in the Peloponnese and Cyprus.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Yannis · See more »

Zeta

Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; ζῆτα, label, classical or zē̂ta; zíta) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet.

New!!: Romanization of Greek and Zeta · See more »

Redirects here:

Greek Latinization, Greek Romanization, Greek romanizated, Greek romanization, Greek transliteration, Latinisation of Greek, Latinization of Greek, Latinized Greek, Romanisation of Ancient Greek, Romanisation of Greek, Romanization of Ancient Greek, Romanization of greek, Transcription of greek alphabet, Transliteration of Ancient Greek, Transliteration of Ancient Greek into English, Transliteration of Greek, Transliteration of Greek into English, Transliteration of Greek into the Latin Alphabet, Transliteration of Greek to the Latin Alphabet, Transliteration of Greek to the Latin alphabet, Transliteration of greek.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »