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SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈæl.fəˌbɛt//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈæl.fə.bɪt//

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    The set of letters used when writing in a language.

    The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.

    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.

  2. 2

    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.)

  3. 3

    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 there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)

  4. 4

    A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

    Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.

  5. 5

    An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

    The notes are named with the first seven alphabets.

    We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.

    There are 26 alphabets in English.

    Tamil got 247 alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know.

  6. 6

    The simplest rudiments; elements.

    The very alphabet of our law.

  7. 7

    An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor. Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha) Proto-Semitic *bayt- Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor. Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der. Classical Latin alphabētumbor. Middle English alphabete English alphabet From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐). Doublet of alfabeto.

Verb

  1. 1

    seltenTo designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Formen

Plural
alphabets
Präteritum
alphabeted
Partizip II
alphabeted
Partizip I
alphabeting
3. Person Singular
alphabets
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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