The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὦ μέγα
- English todayomega
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
omega
Today it means: The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα