abecé
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
Further reading
- “abecé”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aβeˈθɛ]
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
- 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
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “abeçe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abeçe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abecé”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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): /abeˈθe/ [a.β̞eˈθe] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /abeˈse/ [a.β̞eˈse] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: a‧be‧cé
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
- ABCs (alphabet)
- Synonym: alfabeto
- primer (textbook formerly used to teach the alphabet)
- Synonym: abecedario
- basic or fundamental facts about a topic
Further reading
- “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024