PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoPretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it’s posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it’s posh. But at the end of the day it’s in the same spirit as “the ABC”, or Latin “abecedarius”.
minus-squareTheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoIt’s also “ABC” (“ábécé”) in Hungarian. (And I bet in a lot of other languages too.)
Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it’s posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it’s posh. But at the end of the day it’s in the same spirit as “the ABC”, or Latin “abecedarius”.
It’s also “ABC” (“ábécé”) in Hungarian. (And I bet in a lot of other languages too.)