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- Look up episemon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Episēmon (Gr**** ἐπίσημον, from epi- "on" plus sēma "sign"; plural: episēma) is a Gr**** word that...
- appellation in classical Gr**** is digamma; as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine...
- letter ἧτα was originally an episemon, and distinguishing between the episemon of the number 6 and the digamma or episemon of Vau. He does not name his...
- special numerical one (). By the Byzantine era, the letter was known as episemon and written as or . This eventually merged with the sigma-tau ligature...
- antiquity. Originally called wau, it was called digamma in classical Gr**** and episemon during the Byzantine era. It was conflated with the στ ligature owing to...
- interpretative mark in the musical notation of Gregorian chant the plural of episemon, a word for a symbolic badge or for a numeral sign This disambiguation...
- charaktir", i.e. just "the character"), respectively. The term "ἐπίσημον" (episēmon, literally "outstanding") is today used properly as a generic cover term...
- especially to the letter Waw and its Gr**** equivalent, Digamma (called Episemon in the treatise), the numeral sign for "6". This sign is interpreted as...