upsilon

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν (û psilón, “simple Υ”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːpˈsaɪ.lən/, /ˈʌp.sɪˌlɒn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈjup.sɪˌlɑn/, /ˈʌp.sɪˌlɑn/, /ˈup.sɪˌlɑn/

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← tau		→ phi
Υ υ Ancient Greek: ὖ ψιλόν
Wikipedia article on upsilon

Noun

upsilon (plural upsilons or upsila)

1. The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
2. (particle physics) An upsilon meson, or bottomonium.

Synonyms

• (uncommon) ypsilon

Translations

letter of the Greek alphabet

• Arabic: أُبْسِلُون m (ʔubsilūn), أُبْسِيلُون m (ʾubsilūn)
• Catalan: ípsilon (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宇普西龍／宇普西龙 (zh), 宇普西龙 (zh) (yǔpǔxīlóng), 埃普西隆 (āipǔxīlóng)

• Czech: ypsilon (cs) n
• Danish: ypsilon (da) n
• Dutch: upsilon (nl) m or f, ypsilon (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: upsilono (eo)
• Finnish: ypsilon (fi)
• French: upsilon (fr) m
• German: Ypsilon (de) n
• Greek: ύψιλον (el) n (ýpsilon)

  Ancient: ὖ ψιλόν n (û psilón)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: אִיפְּסִילוֹן f (ípsilon)
• Hungarian: üpszilon
• Interlingua: ypsilon
• Italian: ipsilon
• Japanese: ユプシロン (yupushiron), ウプシロン (upushiron)
• Korean: 입실론 (ko) (ipsillon)
• Malay: upsilon
• Portuguese: ípsilon (pt) m, hipsilo m, ipsilone (pt) m, ipsilão m
• Russian: и́псилон (ru) m (ípsilon)
• Slovak: ypsilon m
• Spanish: ípsilon

See also

• (Greek letter): Previous: tau, Next: phi

Anagrams

• Poulins, pulsion, unspoil

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὖ ψιλόν (û psilón).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yp.si.lɔ̃/, /yp.si.lɔn/

Noun

upsilon m (plural upsilon)

1. upsilon (Greek letter)

Synonyms

• i grec

Further reading

• “upsilon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pulsion