alphabetic

English

Alternative forms

• alphabetick (obsolete)

Etymology

Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

Adjective

alphabetic

1. Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.

   Synonym: alphabetical

   • 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26:

     Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]

Derived terms

• alphabetician
• alphabeticise
• alphabeticity
• alphabeticize
• alphamagic square
• analphabetic
• holoalphabetic
• monoalphabetic
• multialphabetic
• nonalphabetic
• polyalphabetic
• prealphabetic
• unalphabetic

 

Related terms

• alphabetize
• alphameric
• alphamerical
• alphamerically
• alphanumber
• alphanumeric
• alphanumerical
• alphanumerically
• alphasyllabary
• alphasyllabic
• alphasyllabical
• alphasyllabically

 

Translations

alphabetical — see alphabetical