kappa

See also: Kappa and käppä

English

Ancient Greek alphabet

← iota		→ lambda
Κ κ Ancient Greek: κάππα
Wikipedia article on kappa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæpə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æpə
• Homophone: cappa

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”). Doublet of kaph.

Noun

kappa (countable and uncountable, plural kappas)

2. The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
3. (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): tau, vega

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• Fleiss' kappa
• kappacism
• kappa effect

Translations

Greek letter

Arabic: كَبَا f (kabā) Asturian: kapa (ast), kappa (ast) Catalan: kappa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 卡帕 (zh) (kǎpà) Coptic: ⲕⲁⲡⲡⲁ (kappa) Czech: kapa n, kappa n Dutch: kappa (nl) m or f Esperanto: kapo (eo) Finnish: kappa (fi) French: kappa (fr) m German: Kappa (de) n Greek: κάπα (el) n (kápa) Ancient: κάππα n (káppa) Hebrew: כָּפָּא f (káppa) Hungarian: kappa (hu) Interlingua: kappa Italian: kappa (it) f Japanese: カッパ (ja) (kappa) Korean: 카파 (ko) (kapa) Malay: kapa Maori: kāepa Marathi: काप्पा m (kāppā) Polish: kappa (pl) f Portuguese: capa (pt) m, cá (pt) m Russian: ка́ппа (ru) f (káppa) Spanish: kappa (es) f Swedish: kappa (sv) n Tagalog: kapa Thai: แคปปา (kɛ́p-bpâa)

See also

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

Etymology 2

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Kappa (folklore)

Wikipedia

From Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”).

Noun

kappa (plural kappas)

1. (Japanese mythology) A tortoise-like demon or imp.
   • 2013, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Kitsune-Mochi: Kitsune Tales #2‎, page 94:

     It was not quite possible for a kappa to go pale, but this one managed, shrinking partly into its shell.

Translations

mythical creature

Chinese: Mandarin: 河童 (zh) (hétóng) Finnish: kappa (fi) French: kappa (fr) m Marathi: काप्पा m (kāppā) Polish: kappa (pl) f Russian: ка́ппа (ru) f (káppa) Swedish: kappa (sv) c

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkap.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkap.pa]

Noun

kappa f (plural kappes)

1. Kappa; the Greek letter Κ (lowercase κ)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkapa]

Noun

kappa n or f

1. alternative form of kapa

Declension

when feminine:

Declension of kappa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	kappa	kappy
genitive	kappy	kapp
dative	kappě	kappám
accusative	kappu	kappy
vocative	kappo	kappy
locative	kappě	kappách
instrumental	kappou	kappami

Indeclinable when neuter.

Further reading

• “kappa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kappa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

See also: theta

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάππα (káppa). Doublet of kaf.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

kappa f (plural kappa's, diminutive kappaatje n)

1. kappa (letter of the Greek alphabet)

Further reading

• kappa on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl