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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
- abecedary
- Synonym: beceroles
- ABCs, alphabet
- Synonym: alfabet
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation
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: ILG
- 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): (Spain) /abeˈθe/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /abeˈse/
- 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
- Synonyms: abc, ABC
Further reading