abecé

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See also: abece, abecê, ābece, ābecē, ábécé, and á-bê-cê

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

  1. abecedary
    Synonym: beceroles
  2. ABCs, alphabet
    Synonym: alfabet

Further reading

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

  1. 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

  • “abeçe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “abeçe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “abecé” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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): (Spain) /abeˈθe/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /abeˈse/
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: a‧be‧cé

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

  1. ABCs (alphabet)
    Synonym: alfabeto
  2. primer (textbook formerly used to teach the alphabet)
    Synonym: abecedario
  3. basic or fundamental facts about a topic
    Synonyms: abc, ABC

Further reading

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