Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.
Ultimately, most, supremely.
The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω. · The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. · Angular velocity; symbol: ω. · A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
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- Derivation mentionὦ μέγαgrc
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