Editing Theta (section)

==International Phonetic Alphabet==
In the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA), {{IPA|[θ]}} represents the [[voiceless dental fricative]], as in '''''th'''ick'' or '''''th'''in''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=International Phonetic Association |title=Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: a guide to the use of the international phonetic alphabet |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-63751-0 |edition=22. printing |location=Cambridge |pages=177 |quote=θ Theta voiceless dental fricative}}</ref> It does not represent the consonant in '''''th'''e'', which is the [[voiced dental fricative]] counterpart, represented in the IPA by {{IPA|[ð]}} (cf. [[Eth]]). A similar-looking lower-case symbol, {{IPA|[ɵ]}}, which is called ''barred o'', is the IPA symbol for the [[close-mid central rounded vowel]].