alfabeto

See also: alfabetò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet.

Noun

alfabeto (uncountable)

1. Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.

   Holonym: alphabet soup

   • 2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media:

     Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.

2. (music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.
   • 1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127:

     The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.

   • 1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30:

     Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.

   • 1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732):

     In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalfabɛto]
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to

Proper noun

alfabeto

1. vocative singular of alfabeta

Esperanto

Etymology

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ /⁠aleph⁠/, “ox”) and 𐤁 (b /⁠beth⁠/, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alfaˈbeto]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to

Noun

alfabeto (accusative singular alfabeton, plural alfabetoj, accusative plural alfabetojn)

1. (grammar) alphabet

Derived terms

• alfabeta

Galician

Etymology

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

1. alphabet

Related terms

• alfabético
• alfabetizar

Further reading

• “alfabeto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alfaˈbeto/

Noun

alfabeto (plural alfabeti)

1. (grammar) alphabet

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from alpha and beta (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ /⁠aleph⁠/, “ox”) and 𐤁 (b /⁠beth⁠/, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.faˈbɛ.to/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bè‧to

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabeti)

1. alphabet

   Synonym: (obsolete) abecedario

Related terms

Related terms

• alfa
• alfabeta
• alfabetario
• alfabetico
• alfabetismo
• alfabetizzare
• alfabetizzazione
• analfabeta
• analfabetismo
• beta

Further reading

• alfabèto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• alfabeto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• alphabeto (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛtu

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.faˈbɛ.tu/ [aʊ̯.faˈbɛ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.faˈbɛ.tu/ [aʊ̯.faˈbɛ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.faˈbɛ.to/ [aʊ̯.faˈbɛ.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /al.fɐˈbɛ.tu/ [aɫ.fɐˈβɛ.tu]

• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

1. alphabet

   Synonym: abecedário

   O A é a primeira letra do alfabeto.

   A is the first letter of the alphabet.

Related terms

• alfabético
• alfabetismo

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alfaˈbeto/ [al.faˈβ̞e.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: al‧fa‧be‧to

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos)

1. alphabet

Derived terms

• alfabético
• alfabetizar
• alfabeto árabe
• alfabeto cirílico
• Alfabeto Fonético Internacional
• alfabeto glagolítico
• alfabeto latino
• alfabeto radiofónico

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: alpabeto
• → Cebuano: alpabeto
• → Tagalog: alpabeto

Etymology 2

Back-formation from analfabeto.

Adjective

alfabeto (feminine alfabeta, masculine plural alfabetos, feminine plural alfabetas)

1. literate

   Antonym: analfabeto

Noun

alfabeto m (plural alfabetos, feminine alfabeta, feminine plural alfabetas)

1. literate person

   Antonym: analfabeto

Derived terms

• alfabetismo

 

Further reading

• “alfabeto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28