| 词汇 | y |
| 词源 | Y. Our letter y can be traced back to the Greek alphabet, the Greeks having added it to the Phoenician alphabet. It is called the Samian letter after Pythagoras (the Samian Sage, born at Samos in the sixth century b.c.) because the Greek philosopher employed the letter (also called the Letter of Pythagoras) as his emblem of the straight and narrow of virtue, “which is one, but, if once deviated from, the farther the lines are extended the wider becomes the breach.” |
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