abecé
Catalan
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “abecé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Alternative forms
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
- 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
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]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: a‧be‧cé
Noun
abecé m (plural abecés)
Further reading
- “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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