(Greek: ; beginning, first of anything; first letter of the Greek alphabet; used in physics and chemistry to designate a variety of series or values)

(Greek: original [first in time], beginning, first cause, origin, ancient, primitive, from the beginning; most basic)

(Latin: birth, beget; descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort; kind, class)

(Latin: beginning to be, becoming; to be somewhat; a suffix that forms nouns and adjectives)

(Greek: the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Σ, σ [beginning of word], ς [end of word])