alphabetum

Latin

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton) from the accusative of Koine Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) from Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha, “alpha”) + βῆτα (bêta, “beta”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫ.pʰaˈbeː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.faˈbɛː.tum]

Noun

alphabētum n (genitive alphabētī); second declension

1. alphabet

   Synonym: ā̆bē̆cē̆dārium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	alphabētum	alphabēta
genitive	alphabētī	alphabētōrum
dative	alphabētō	alphabētīs
accusative	alphabētum	alphabēta
ablative	alphabētō	alphabētīs
vocative	alphabētum	alphabēta

Descendants

• Asturian: alfabetu
• Catalan: alfabet
• → English: alphabet
• Franco-Provençal: alfabèt
• → French: alphabet
  • → Polish: alfabet
• Galician: alfabeto
• → Italian: alfabeto
• Ligurian: alfabêto
• Lombard: alfabet
• Occitan: alfabet
• → Portuguese: alfabeto
• Romanian: alfabet
• Sicilian: alfabbetu
• → Spanish: alfabeto
  • → Cebuano: alpabeto
  • → Central Bikol: alpabeto
  • → Tagalog: alpabeto
• → Ukrainian: альфабет (alʹfabet)

References

• “alphabetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alphabetum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alphabetum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.