Omega (, ; uppercase Ω, lowercase ω) is the twenty-fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The name of the letter was originally ( ), but it was later changed to ( 'big o') in the Middle Ages to distinguish it from omicron , whose name means 'small o', as both letters had come to be pronounced . In modern Greek, its name has fused into ().
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Omega is the twenty-fourth and final letter of the Greek alphabet, used in Greek writing and also assigned the numerical value of 800 in ancient Greek number systems. The letter's name was changed in the Middle Ages from its original form to "big O" to distinguish it from omicron ("small O"), since the two letters had begun to sound identical in Greek pronunciation.
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Omega (, ; uppercase Ω, lowercase ω) is the twenty-fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The name of the letter was originally ( ), but it was later changed to ( 'big o') in the Middle Ages to distinguish it from omicron , whose name means 'small o', as both letters had come to be pronounced . In modern Greek, its name has fused into ().
In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Ω represented a long open-mid back rounded vowel , in contrast to omicron, which represented the close-mid back rounded vowel , and the digraph , which represented the long close back rounded vowel . In modern Greek, both omega and omicron represent the mid back rounded vowel . The letter omega is transliterated into a Latin-script alphabet as or .