abecé
See also: abece, abecê, ābece, ābecē, ábécé, and á-bê-cê
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ə.bəˈse/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.beˈse/
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
- abecedary
- Synonym: beceroles
- ABCs, alphabet
- Synonym: alfabet
Further reading
- “abecé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aβeˈθɛ]
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
- ABCs, alphabet
- c1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), 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
- 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
- Synonym: alfabeto
- c1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 466:
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/ [a.β̞eˈθe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /abeˈse/ [a.β̞eˈse]
- 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
- “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014