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Labda may refer to: * Lambda, a letter of the Greek alphabet * Labda (mythology) According to Herodotus, Labda (Ancient Greek: ) was a daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion. Her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the letter lambda (),Etymologicum Mag ..., a figure in Greek mythology See also * Lambda (other) * Lapda, an ancient town in Roman Africa {{Disambiguation ...
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Lambda
Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise to the Latin L and the Cyrillic El (Л). The ancient grammarians and dramatists give evidence to the pronunciation as () in Classical Greek times. In Modern Greek, the name of the letter, Λάμδα, is pronounced . In early Greek alphabets, the shape and orientation of lambda varied. Most variants consisted of two straight strokes, one longer than the other, connected at their ends. The angle might be in the upper-left, lower-left ("Western" alphabets) or top ("Eastern" alphabets). Other variants had a vertical line with a horizontal or sloped stroke running to the right. With the general adoption of the Ionic alphabet, Greek settled on an angle at the top; the Romans put the angle at the lower-left. The HTML 4 character entity re ...
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Labda (mythology)
According to Herodotus, Labda (Ancient Greek: ) was a daughter of the Bacchiad Amphion, and mother of Cypselus, by Eetion. Her name was derived from the fact of her feet being turned outward, and thus resembling the letter lambda (),Etymologicum Magnum p. 199. Compare Cypselus Cypselus ( grc-gre, Κύψελος, ''Kypselos'') was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional her .... (cited in Smith) which, by the accounts of the most ancient Greek grammarians, was originally pronounced ''labda'' . Notes References * "Labda." Leonhard Schmitz. ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''. William Smith, editor (1870). Ancient Greek women {{Greek-myth-stub Characters in Greek mythology ...
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Lambda (other)
Lambda (Λ or λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. Lambda may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Lambda'' (newspaper), a student newspaper at Laurentian University, Canada * Lambda-class shuttle, a fictional entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe * Lambda-11, a character in the '' BlazBlue'' game series * Lambda Angelus, a character in the video game ''Tales of Graces'' * Lambda Lambda Lambda, a fictional college fraternity in the '' Revenge of the Nerds'' series * The logo of the ''Half-Life'' video game series * Colony Lambda, a location in ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3'' * ''Lambda'', novel by David Musgrave Science and technology * Lambda (anatomy), a point on the skull * Lambda (unit), a non-SI unit of volume equal to 10−9 m3 * Lambda baryon * AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform by Amazon * SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant, a COVID-19 variant * LaMDA, a neural language model developed by Google * Lambda Expression, a function that is not bound t ...
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