alphabet

• n.アルファベット、アルファベット体系；入門、予備

alpha、最初のギリシャ文字、Aと同じ。 bet、2番目のギリシャ文字、Bと同じ。

alphabet

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.

alphabet (n.)

1570s, from Late Latin alphabetum (Tertullian), from Greek alphabetos, from alpha + beta. Alphabet soup first attested 1907. Words for it in Old English included st?fr?w, literally "row of letters," st?frof "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]

1. The alphabet might be more rational if all the vowels came first.

すべての母音を前にすると、アルファベットがより合理的になる可能性があります。

2.The modern Russian alphabet has 31 letters.

現代ロシア語アルファベットには31文字のアルファベットがあります。

3.Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet .

英語アルファベットで、QはPとRの間にあります。

4.the International Phonetic Alphabet

国際音標

5.Anybody who compiles a dictionary has to know his alphabet backwards.

誰が辞書を編集してもアルファベットを覚えておかなければなりません。