PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months 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-up0·9 months 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.)