abecé
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abecé m (plural abecés)
Further reading edit
- “abecé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet. Forms such as abece and A.B.C. are attested from Old Spanish.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /abeˈθe/ [a.β̞eˈθe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /abeˈse/ [a.β̞eˈse]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: a‧be‧cé
Noun edit
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
Further reading edit
- “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014