The corpus record — Latin

Delta

Delta · f

the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, delta

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Where it lives

De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

delta — Lewis & Short

delta, ae, f. or indecl.n., = de/lta,

I the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, delta, *d: non formam at vocem deltae gero Romuleum D, Aus. Idyll. de lit. monos. 14; so (but with gender undetermined) Mel. 2, 7, 14.—

II Meton.,

Delta indecl. n., *de/lta, nom. prop., the Delta in Lower Egypt, Mel. 1, 9, 2; Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 48; 3, 16, 20, § 121; Auct. B. Alex. 27.

In the wild

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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