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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 the·ta /ˈθetə, ||ˈθitə/
 希蠟字母的第八字

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 The·ta n.  A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death.
 Theta function Math., one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 theta
      n : the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet