alphabet的词源

英文词源

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alphabet: [15] This word is based on the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta, standing for the whole. It derives from Greek alphabētos, via Latin alphabētum. When it first came into English, purists tried to insist that it should be reserved for the Greek alphabet, and that the English alphabet should be referred to by the term ABC (which had been lexicalized in various forms, such as abece, apece, and absee, since the late 13th century), but, like most such prescriptive demands, this was a waste of breath and ink.
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1570s, from Late Latin alphabetum (Tertullian), from Greek alphabetos, from alpha + beta. Alphabet soup first attested 1907. Words for it in Old English included stæfræw, literally "row of letters," stæfrof "array of letters."
It was a wise though a lazy cleric whom Luther mentions in his "Table Talk,"--the monk who, instead of reciting his breviary, used to run over the alphabet and then say, "O my God, take this alphabet, and put it together how you will." [William S. Walsh, "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities," 1892]

中文词源

alphabet(字母表):希腊文字的前两个字母α(alpha)和β(beta)

希腊字母源于腓尼基字母。腓尼基字母只有辅音。希腊字母是世界上最早有原因的字母,共24个,从左往右书写。希腊字母对整个西方文明产生了深远的影响。罗马人使用的拉丁字母和俄语等使用的西里尔字母都来自希腊字母。至今,各国人民在数学、物理等学术领域中依然使用希腊字母。希腊字母融入了许多其他语言中,如Delta(三角洲)这个国际语汇就来自希腊字母Δ,因为Δ是三角形。英语单词alphabet(字母表)与希腊字母密切相关,它来自希腊语alphabetos,由alpha + beta构成,而alpha就是希腊字母表中的第一个字母α,beta是希腊字母表中的第二个字母β。在这里,字母表中的前两个字母用来代表整个字母表。

alphabet: ['ælfəbet] n.字母表,字母系统,入门知识。记:alpha + beta

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:alphabet 词源,alphabet 含义。

alphabet:字母表

发音释义:['ælfəbet] n. 字母表,字母系统;入门,初步

结构分析:alphabet = alpha(希腊首字母)+ bet(第二个希腊字母)→字母表→入门

词源解释:alpha←希腊语alpha(希腊首字母);bet←希腊语beta(第二个希腊字母)

背景知识:希腊字母表中,首字母(A, a)发音为alpha,第二个字母(B,β)发音为beta。

衍生词:alphabetic/alphabetical(字母的,按字母表顺序的)

alphabet:字母表

alpha,希腊语第一个字母,同A.bet, 希腊语第二个字母,同B.

alphabet:字母表

alphabet源于希腊字母表中的头两个字母

alphabet:字母表

这个词是从希腊语的alphabetos来的,而后由拉丁语进入英语,中古英语时期写作alphabete.

alphabet:字母,字母表,初步,入门

是希腊字母表中第一个字母alpha和第二个字母beta发音的组合。