different between abecedarium vs abecedary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abeced?rium.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?e?.bi.si?d???.i.?m/

Noun

abecedarium (plural abecedaria)

1. A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer.
2. An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.

Synonyms

• abecedary

Translations

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Latin

Etymology

Substantive from abeced?rius (“alphabetical”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.be.ke?da?.ri.um/, [äb?k??d?ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.be.t??e?da.ri.um/, [?b?t????d????ium]

Noun

abeced?rium n (genitive abeced?ri? or abeced?r?); second declension

1. alphabet, ABCs
2. accusative singular of abeced?rium
3. vocative singular of abeced?rium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• abeced?ria
• abeced?rius

Descendants

• ? English: abecedarian
• ? Old Irish: apgitir
  • Middle Irish: aibgitir
    • Irish: aibítir
• ? Portuguese: abecedário
• ? Welsh: egwyddor, gwyddor

References

Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). ?ISBN. page 1.

English

Etymology

From Middle English abecedary, from Medieval Latin abecedarium (“alphabet, ABC primer”), from Late Latin abecedarius (“of the alphabet”), formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?e?.bi?.?si?.d?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?e?.bi.?si.d?.i/, /?e?.bi.?si.d?.?i/

Noun

abecedary (plural abecedaries)

1. (rare) The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium. [from 1350 to 1470]
2. One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian. [from late 16^th century]

Translations

Adjective

abecedary (not comparable)

1. Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

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