Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An a-b-c book.
Wiktionary
- n. An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.
Etymologies
- Borrowing from Latin abecedarium ("abecedārium") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I've been reading these abecedarium posts with such pleasure and realized that I hadn't written my thanks for sharing.”
“I realize your abecedarium can only be one of a kind but it would be a lovely book.”
“An abecedarium is a a means to learn the alphabet.”
“It relies for the first letter upon the authority of Plutarch, who asserts that the Egyptian abecedarium numbered the square of five (twenty-five); and that it opened with — [Greek] —, which also expresses the god”
“It relies for the first letter upon the authority of Plutarch, who asserts that the Egyptian abecedarium numbered the square of five”
“The Arabs, I have said, took the flag or water leaf form and departed very far from the Egyptian original (we know from Plutarch that the hieroglyphic abecedarium began with "a"), which was chosen by other imitators, namely the bull's head, and which in the cursive form, especially the”
“Altogether they create an enveloping abecedarium in Tandem Press's booth, one of 90 on hand at the Park Avenue Armory.”
“An abecedarium is an alphabet that celebrates the letter’s typographic design and the word that represents it.”
“I love abecedaria and I’ve wikified the following abecedarium by Peter Wollen: “An Alphabet of Cinema,” which was posted over at Girish‘s.”
“At this point, it’s just a sketch; just another entry in the abecedarium & book-o-letters.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘abecedarium’.
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Favorite Words
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
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chairmanK's list
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Thomas's Words
argus-eyed, chasmophile, extirpate, aperitif, outre, repartee, schadenfreude, insouciant, joie de vivre, callipygian, cavil, ad hominem and 147 more...
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Miscellaneously Encountered
crapulence, philavery, exsibilate, undergrope, fabiform, noctivagous, sessle, groak, lethologica, opisthognathous, adumbrate, sequelae and 10 more...
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limeade's list
rust, vetiver, marigold, chrysanthemum, alizarin, jasper, chalcedony, tourmaline, pendeloque, ember, molasses, crypt and 24 more...
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Verba volant, Scripta manent
abecedarium, alphabet, abjad, abugida, syllabary, logograph, cuneiform, heiroglyph, rebus, qipu, rune, tetragrammaton and 17 more...
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ljubljana je ljubljena
The list name means "Ljubljana is loved" – which, needless to say, is how I feel. So it's about time I made this list.
ljubljana, laibach, prešeren square, congress square, tivoli park, emona, dragon bridge, castle hill, golovec, zelena jama, gradiš�?e, bežigrad and 72 more...
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fifty cent words
perspicacious, abstruse, obfuscate, callipygous, bellicose, abecedarium, acalculia, concomitant, amuse-bouche, anhedonia
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Roon's Words
Tweets
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rolig This is actually an important word for Slovenes, and there is even a restaurant in Ljubljana's Old Town that goes by this name. The Protestant leader Primož Trubar's Abecedarium (an ABC book to teach people how to read) was one of the first two books printed in Slovene, in 1550. The restaurant is located in a building ("the oldest house in Ljubljana") where Trubar once lived. May 19, 2009
beecher Obviously related to abecedarian. Oct 20, 2008