alphabet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Semitic *ʔalp-
Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor.
Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)
Proto-Semitic *bayt-
Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor.
Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)
Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der.
Classical Latin alphabētumbor.
Middle English alphabete
English alphabet
From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐).
 Doublet of alfabeto.
Inflected forms:
form: alphabets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The set of letters used when writing in a language.
pos: noun
examples: The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
gloss: A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
pos: noun
gloss: A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
pos: noun
gloss: A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
pos: noun
examples: Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.
gloss: An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
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dialectal
nonstandard
examples: The notes are named with the first seven alphabets.
We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
There are 26 alphabets in English.
Tamil got 247 alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know.
gloss: The simplest rudiments; elements.
pos: noun
examples: The very alphabet of our law.
gloss: An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Synonyms: ABC
absey
Related words: alphabetary
alphabetician
analphabet
abecedary
abjad
abugida
orthography
script
syllabary
writing system
Derived words: alphabetarian
alphabeted
alphabetic(-al) → alphabetically
multi-
poly-
prealphabetic
alphabetiform
alphabetism
alphabetitis
alphabetize
-ise
alphabetlike
alphametic
alphanumeric(-al)
alphasort
ARPAbet
multialphabet
prealphabet
semi-alphabet
unalphabeted
alphabet agency
alphabet block
alphabet book
alphabet boy
alphabet brick
alphabet mafia
alphabet of desire
alphabet oracle
alphabet soup
Euclidean alphabet
finger alphabet
hand alphabet
ICAO spelling alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet
manual alphabet
mixed alphabet
movable alphabet
moveable alphabet
NATO phonetic alphabet
phonetic alphabet
phonetic spelling alphabet
radio alphabet
Raguileo alphabet
Shavian alphabet
spelling alphabet
telephone alphabet
Theban alphabet
voice procedure alphabet
weighted alphabet
word-spelling alphabet
Zhuyin alphabet
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