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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

References

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.