alphabet
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 (“ox”) and beth 𐤁 (“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈæl.fə.bɛt/, X-SAMPA: /"{l.f@.bEt/
- (uncommon:) IPA: /ˈæl.fə.bɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"{l.f@.bIt/
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: al‧pha‧bet
Noun [edit]
alphabet (plural alphabets)
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
- In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
- 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.)
- A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- Let
be a regular language over the alphabet 
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- Let
- (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
- We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
- 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237:
- There are 26 alphabets in English.
- 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- Macaulay
- The very alphabet of our law.
- Macaulay
be a regular language over the alphabet 
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Translations [edit]
an ordered set of letters used in a language
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See also [edit]
Verb [edit]
alphabet (third-person singular simple present alphabets, present participle alphabeting, simple past and past participle alphabeted)
External links [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 (“ox”) and beth 𐤁 (“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
alphabet m (plural alphabets)
- alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)
Related terms [edit]
Middle French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 (“ox”) and beth 𐤁 (“house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
Noun [edit]
alphabet m (plural alphabets)
- alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)
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- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English nouns
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- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Middle French terms derived from Late Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Ancient Greek
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