Complete Definition of "omega"

see|Omega|oméga|ómega
English

Etymology
From Middle English, from Gr. o "o" + mega "large" (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Pronunciation
IPA|/���m�g�/

Noun
en-noun

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical Greek|Classical and the Greek|Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old Greek|Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: �.
  2. figurative The end; death.

#:I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. � Revelation 22:13, New International Version.

Translations
trans-top|letter of the Greek alphabet
Bulgarian: омега f
Dutch: omega f
French: oméga m
German: Omega n
Interlingua: omega
trans-mid
Japanese: ��� (omega)
Portuguese: ómega m
Russian: омега (IPAchar|om��ga) f
Spanish: omega f
trans-bottom

trans-top|the end; death
German: O n
trans-mid
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