alphabet
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- alphabet set of letters considered as a group
Etymology
Inherited from Latin alphabētum (alphabet) derived from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabet) derived from Phoenician aleph.
Origin
Phoenician
aleph
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alphabet English
- alphabetarius Latin
- alphabētum Latin
- alfabet Dutch, Flemish
- alphabet French
- алфави́т Russian
- алфавит Russian
- alfabeto Spanish, Castilian
- βῆτᾰ Ancient Greek
- ἀλφάβητος Ancient Greek
- ἄλφα Ancient Greek
- alfabet Norwegian Bokmål
- alfabeto Portuguese
- alfabet Polish
- alfabet Norwegian Nynorsk
- alphabete Middle English
- alfabet Serbo-Croatian
- alfabet Catalan, Valencian
- alfabeto Galician
- alphabeet Middle Dutch
- אַלפֿאַבעט Yiddish
- alfabeet Estonian
- alfabet Cimbrian
- алфавіт Ukrainian
- альфабет Ukrainian
- alfabet Occitan
- alfabetu Asturian
- alfabbetu Sicilian
- ἀλφάβητον gkm
- aleph Phoenician
- alphabētum LL