abecé

See also: abece, abecê, ābece, ābecē, ábécé, and á-bê-cê

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βəˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.bəˈse]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.beˈse]

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. abecedary

   Synonym: beceroles

2. ABCs, alphabet

   Synonym: alfabet

Further reading

• “abecé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Alternative forms

• abecê (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aβeˈθɛ]

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “abeçe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abeçe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abecé”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Etymology

From the first three letters of the Latin alphabet. Forms such as abece and A.B.C. are attested from Old Spanish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /abeˈθe/ [a.β̞eˈθe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /abeˈse/ [a.β̞eˈse]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: a‧be‧cé

Noun

abecé m (plural abecés)

1. ABCs (alphabet)

   Synonym: alfabeto

2. primer (textbook formerly used to teach the alphabet)

   Synonym: abecedario

3. basic or fundamental facts about a topic

   Synonyms: abc, ABC

Further reading

• “abecé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10