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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See Latin alphabet.
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- n. The Latin alphabet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
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“Rumanian language was formerly written in Slavonic or Russian characters, and this continued until about 1825, when the Roman alphabet was adopted, first by the Catholic Rumanians and then by the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“These Slavs were converted to Christianity and to the Roman Rite by Latin missionaries, and gradually the Roman alphabet drove out the use of the Glagolitic, so that the Bohemians,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.”
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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