alfabeto
See also: alfabetò
English
Noun
alfabeto (uncountable)
- Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
- 2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media:
- Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.
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- (music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.
- 1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volume 17-18, page 127:
- The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.
- 1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30:
- Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.
- 1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732):
- In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).
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Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alfaˈbeto/
- Hyphenation: al‧fa‧be‧to
- Rhymes: -eto
- Audio:
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Noun
alfabeto (accusative singular alfabeton, plural alfabetoj, accusative plural alfabetojn)
Galician
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek αλφάβητος (alphábētos), from alpha and beta (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Phoenician 𐤀 (aleph, “ox”) and 𐤁 (beth, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.faˈbɛ.to/, [älfäˈbɛːt̪o]
- Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bè‧to
Synonyms
- (obsolete) abecedario
Related terms
Related terms
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- alphabeto (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alfaˈbeto/, [alfaˈβet̪o]
Etymology 1
From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Back-formation from analfabeto.
Adjective
alfabeto (feminine singular alfabeta, masculine plural alfabetos, feminine plural alfabetas)
- literate
- Antonym: analfabeto
Noun
alfabeto m (plural alfabetos, feminine alfabeta, feminine plural alfabetas)
- literate person
- Antonym: analfabeto
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alfabeto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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