![]() Greek omicron gave rise to the corresponding Cyrillic letter O. In Greek, a variation of the form later came to differentiate this long sound ( Omega, meaning "large O") from the short o (Omicron, meaning "small o"). The letter was adopted with the value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter of O "omicron" to represent the vowel /o/. Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably, the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ʿayn. ʿeyn, meaning "eye", and indeed its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyph, cf. ![]() Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today. History Late Renaissance or early Baroque design of an O, from 1627 Its name in English is o (pronounced / ˈ oʊ/), plural oes. ![]() ![]() O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. ![]()
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