U .
U
U, u , tov , indecl., twentieth letter of Gr. alphabet: as numeral uV = 400, but Ëu = 400,000. Called uJyilovn , because the orig. sound was broad, like ou , and afterwards was thin like French u. The Gr. u , like Lat. v , was originally both a vowel (u) and a semi-vowel (v), v. infr. II .I.
Interchanges of
v
with other vowels,
1.
Aeol.
for
o
, as
o[numa stuvma u[rni"
for
o[noma stovma o[rni"
; also
pivsure"
for
pevtore"
(
tevssare"
),
cf.
nuvx
,
Lat.
nox
.
2.
Aeol
., the diphth.
ou
became
oi, Moi`sa
for
Mou`sa, levgoisa
for
levgousa
.
3.
u<Eth>
sometimes replaces
oi
, as
koinov" xunov", koivrano" kuvrio"
.
4.
Boeot.
u<Eth>
for
w
, as
celuvnh
for
celwvnh
.
II.
u
as a semivowel represented
vau
(
ü
), the digamma, sometimes it formed the diphth.
au
, as
aujevrusan
for
ajnüevrusan
(
v.
aujeruvw
),
aujivacoi
for
ajnüivacoi, aujavta
for
ajüavta
(
a[th
)
, kalau`roy
for kalavüroy, talauvrino" for talavürino", tanauvpode" for tanaüovpode" ; sometimes the dipth. eu , as eu[aden for e[üaden .
u], u\
JUavde"
JUavde" , wn, aiJ , ( u{w ) the Hyades, seven stars in the head of the bull, which threatened rain when they rose with the sun, Il., Hes. (Commonly deriv. from u{w , cf. Lat. Pluviae : but the genuine Lat. name was suculae , piglings, as if u|" were the root; and this agrees with the quantity, u being short in uJavde" , long in u{w : Eur. however has uJavde" with u<Eth> .)
u{aina
u{aina± , hJ , the hyaena, an animal of the dog kind, with a bristly mane like a hog (whence the name), Hdt.JUakivnqia
JUakivnqia ( sc. iJerav ) , tav , a Lacedaemonian festival in honour of Hyacinthus, held in the month Hecatombaeon, Hdt. , Thuc. , etc.
uJakinqinobafhv"
uJakinqiØno-ba±fhv" , ev" , ( bavptw ) dyed hyacinth-colour, Xen.uJakivnqino"
uJakivnqiØno" , h, on , hyacinthine, Od., Eur.JUavkinqo"
JUavkinqo" »a±1/4, oJ , Hyacinthus, a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him by a cast of the discus, Eur.
uJavkinqo"
uJavkinqo" , oJ and hJ , the hyacinth, Il., etc. ;—a flower said to have sprung up from the blood of Hyacinthus or of Ajax; and the petals were thought to bear the letters AI , or AIA `I , Mosch. ; hence the epithet graptav in Theocr. The hyacinth seems to have comprehended several dark blue flowers: Hom.