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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: alphabet

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#* '''2005''', Satinder Bal Gupta, ''Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures'', Laxmi Publications, page 237:

  

#* '''2005''', Satinder Bal Gupta, ''Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures'', Laxmi Publications, page 237:
 

#*: There are 26 '''alphabets''' in English.

  

#*: There are 26 '''alphabets''' in English.
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# The simplest rudiments; elements.
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#* Macaulay
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#*: The very '''alphabet''' of our law.
   
 

====Derived terms====

  

====Derived terms====

Latest revision as of 00:29, 19 April 2013

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 ("ox") and beth 𐤁 ("house"), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈæl.fə.bɛt/, X-SAMPA: /"{l.f@.bEt/
  • (uncommon:) IPA: /ˈæl.fə.bɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"{l.f@.bIt/
  • Audio (US) (file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧pha‧bet

[edit] Noun

alphabet (plural alphabets)

  1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.
    The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
  2. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
    1. A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
  3. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
    Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma.
  4. (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
    • 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
      We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
    • 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237:
      There are 26 alphabets in English.
  5. The simplest rudiments; elements.
    • Macaulay
      The very alphabet of our law.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

an ordered set of letters used in a language

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[edit] See also

[edit] Verb

alphabet (third-person singular simple present alphabets, present participle alphabeting, simple past and past participle alphabeted)

  1. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 ("ox") and beth 𐤁 ("house"), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

alphabet m (plural alphabets)

  1. alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)

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[edit] Middle French

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 ("ox") and beth 𐤁 ("house"), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

[edit] Noun

alphabet m (plural alphabets)

  1. alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)
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