Editing Beta (section)

==Name==
Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta was adopted from the [[acrophony|acrophonic]] name of the corresponding letter in [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]], which was the common [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] word {{lang|sem-x-proto|*bayt}} ('house', compare {{langx|ar|بيت}} {{lang|ar-Latn|bayt}} and {{langx|he|בית}} {{lang|he-Latn|báyit}}). In Greek, the name was {{lang|grc|βῆτα}} {{lang|grc-Latn|bêta}}, pronounced {{IPA|el|bɛ̂ːta|}} in Ancient Greek. It is spelled {{lang|el|βήτα}} in modern monotonic orthography and pronounced {{IPA|el|ˈvita|}}.