abecé

See also: abece, abecê, ābece, ābecē, ábécé, and á-bê-cê

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.bəˈse/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.beˈse/

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. abecedary

   Synonym: beceroles

2. ABCs, alphabet

   Synonym: alfabet

Further reading

• “abecé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Alternative forms

• abecê (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aβeˈθɛ]

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. ABCs, alphabet

   Synonym: alfabeto

   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 466:

     Et mandarõ aos scripuães que nõ fezessem letera toledana -ca dõ Gilfos, arçebispo dos godos, fezo ẽno Abeçe suas feguras das leteras - et que husasem das leteras do Abeçe rromano

     And they ordered the scribes not to use the Toledan typeface -because Wulfila, archbishop of the Goths, did in the alphabet his own figures of the letters- and that they should use the Roman alphabet

References

• “abeçe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “abeçe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “abecé” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

Etymology

From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet. Forms such as abece and A.B.C. are attested from Old Spanish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /abeˈθe/ [a.β̞eˈθe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /abeˈse/ [a.β̞eˈse]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: a‧be‧cé

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. ABCs (alphabet)

   Synonym: alfabeto

2. primer (textbook formerly used to teach the alphabet)

   Synonym: abecedario

3. basic or fundamental facts about a topic

   Synonyms: abc, ABC

Further reading

• “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014