English word alphabet comes from Ancient Greek (to 1453) ἄλφα, Ancient Greek (to 1453) Α, Ancient Greek (to 1453) Β, Ancient Greek (to 1453) βῆτα, Ancient Greek (to 1453) βήτα, Ancient Greek (to 1453) α, Ancient Greek (to 1453) β

Detailed word origin of alphabet

Dictionary entry	Language	Definition
ἄλφα	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
Α	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
Β	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
βῆτα	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
βήτα	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
α	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
β	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
ἀλφάβητος	Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
alphabētum	Late Latin (LL)
alphabet	English (eng)	(India, Hong Kong, Singapore) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.). A writing system in which [...]
Greek alphabet	English (eng)	(historical, countable) Other ("epichoric") forms of this alphabet, both prior and subsequent, sometimes they include:. The 24-letter alphabet of the Greek language, first adopted by Athens in 403 BC and now consisting of the following upper- (majuscule) and lower-case (minuscule) pairs:.

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