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.t̪um]
Noun
alphabētum n (genitive alphabētī); second declension
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
References
- “alphabetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "alphabetum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.