alphabet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/|/ˈæl.fə.bɪt/    美 /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/|/ˈæl.fə.bɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.
    — The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
  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. 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. A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
    — Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #92;Sigma.
  5. An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character. Hong-Kong,India,Malaysia,Singapore,dialectal
    — The notes are named with the first seven alphabets.
  6. The simplest rudiments; elements.
    — The very alphabet of our law.
  7. An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency. Internet
动词 v.
  1. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. rare

词形变化

alphabets plural alphabets present,singular,third-person alphabeting participle,present alphabeted participle,past alphabeted past

词汇关系

近义词
ABC absey
上位词
signary
衍生词
alphabetarian alphabeted alphabetic(-al) → alphabetically multi- poly- prealphabetic alphabetiform alphabetism alphabetitis alphabetize -ise alphabetlike alphametic alphanumeric(-al) alphasort ARPAbet multialphabet prealphabet semi-alphabet unalphabeted alphabet agency alphabet block alphabet book alphabet boy alphabet brick alphabet mafia alphabet of desire alphabet oracle alphabet soup Euclidean alphabet finger alphabet hand alphabet ICAO spelling alphabet International Phonetic Alphabet manual alphabet mixed alphabet movable alphabet moveable alphabet NATO phonetic alphabet phonetic alphabet phonetic spelling alphabet radio alphabet Raguileo alphabet Shavian alphabet spelling alphabet telephone alphabet Theban alphabet voice procedure alphabet weighted alphabet word-spelling alphabet Zhuyin alphabet F r a s e l p h b t
相关词
alphabetary alphabetician analphabet abecedary abjad abugida orthography script syllabary writing system

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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