Ζζ
Ζζ, ζῆτα (q.v.), τό, indecl., seventh (later sixth) letter of Gr. alphabet (cf. IG 14.2420 ): as numeral ζ/
A). = ἑπτά and ἕβδομος (ς/, i.e. vvαῦ, the digamma, being retained to represent ἕξ, ἕκτος), but = 7 , 000 .
0-0).Zeta, being a double consonant (pronounced either as zd or as dz acc. to dialect and date), made a short vowel at the end of the foregoing syllable long by position; exc. before pr. names, which could not otherwise come into the hexam., ἄστῠ Ζελείης 4.103 , 121 ; ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος h.Ap. 429 , etc.: afterwds. pronounced as Engl. z, cf. ζμῆνος PCair.Zen. 151.4 (iii B.C.), ζμύρνης ib. 9 (iii B.C.), ἀμφιζβήτησιν Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 6 (ii B.C.), cf. Fr. 187 ; sts. σζ was written, ἐνδέσζμους IG 22.1672.308 (iv B.C.), θυσιάσζειν IG 3.73 .