alfabeto

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See also: alfabetò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (alphabet). Doublet of alphabet.

Noun

alfabeto (uncountable)

  1. Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
    • 2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media:
      Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.
  2. (music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.
    • 1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127:
      The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.
    • 1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30:
      Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.
    • 1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732):
      In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "LL" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ /⁠aleph⁠/, ox) and 𐤁 (b /⁠beth⁠/, house), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [alfaˈbeto]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to

Noun

alfabeto (accusative singular alfabeton, plural alfabetoj, accusative plural alfabetojn)

  1. (grammar) alphabet

Derived terms


Galician

Etymology

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

  1. alphabet

Further reading


Ido

Pronunciation

Noun

alfabeto (plural alfabeti)

  1. (grammar) alphabet

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "LL" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from alpha and beta (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ /⁠aleph⁠/, ox) and 𐤁 (b /⁠beth⁠/, house), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.faˈbɛ.to/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛto
  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bè‧to

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabeti)

  1. alphabet
    Synonym: (obsolete) abecedario

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.faˈbɛ.tu/ [aʊ̯.faˈbɛ.tu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.faˈbɛ.to/ [aʊ̯.faˈbɛ.to]

  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

  1. alphabet
    O A é a primeira letra do alfabeto.
    A is the first letter of the alphabet.
    Synonym: abecedário
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alfaˈbeto/ [al.faˈβ̞e.t̪o]

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

  1. alphabet
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Bikol Central: alpabeto
  • Cebuano: alpabeto
  • Tagalog: alpabeto

Etymology 2

Back-formation from analfabeto.

Adjective

alfabeto (feminine alfabeta, masculine plural alfabetos, feminine plural alfabetas)

  1. literate
    Antonym: analfabeto

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos, feminine alfabeta, feminine plural alfabetas)

  1. literate person
    Antonym: analfabeto
Derived terms

Further reading