βῆτα

See also: βήτα

Ancient Greek

previous letter ἄλφα		following letter γάμμα
Β β – English: beta

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤁 (b‬ /⁠bēt⁠/). The letter name, beth, comes from Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt), 𐤁𐤉𐤕 (byt, “house”).^[1] ^[2]

βῆτᾰ • (bêtă) n (indeclinable)

beta, the name for the second letter Β (B), β (b) of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βῆτα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 213
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄλφα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76

“βῆτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βῆτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
βῆτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βῆτα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
βῆτα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011