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omikron

omikron is the alternative form of omicron.

Meaning of omicron

Noun

omicron (plural omicrons or omicra)

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.
    • Your Majestie knows that unfortunate I [...] was the first who when I published my Poem of Italia Liberata endeavoured to bring the Omicron, Eupselon, Omega, and other Greek Letters, which I thought very requisite for that language, into my own Tongue;1656 [1612], Henry, Earl of Monmouth, transl., I Raggvagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus, London: Humphrey Moseley, translation of De Ragguagli di Parnaso by Traiano Boccalini, page...

Noun capitalized: Omikron

Omikron (plural Omikrons)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of omikron; Alternative spelling of omicron.

Forms of omikron

pluralomikrons
pluralomikra
pluralOmikrons

Origin of omikron

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ὂ μῑκρόν (ò mīkrón, “little o”).

Questions about omikron

What is omikron the alternative form of?
Omikron is the alternative form of omicron.
What part of speech is omikron?
Omikron is a noun.
What is the plural of omikron?
The plural of omikron is omikrons.

Words near omikron in the dictionary

  1. omigawd
  2. omigod
  3. omigosh
  4. Omiko
  5. omikra
  6. omikron
  7. omikrons
  8. omikuji
  9. omiletical
  10. omiloxetine
  11. ominate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: omikron (page history and authors); Omikron (page history and authors); omicron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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