The corpus record — Latin

Koppa

Koppa · n

a letter of the original Greek alphabet

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What it meant

Koppa — Lewis & Short

Koppa (Coppa), n.indecl., = ko/ppa,

I a letter of the original Greek alphabet, in which it stood between p and r, and corresponded to the Hebr. koph and the Lat. q. It was rejected in the literary language, k taking its place, but was retained as a numeral, = 90, Quint. 1, 4, 9; 1, 7, 10.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.