Etymology

alphabetiform

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Today it means: Having the form of a developed alphabet or its letters, as opposed to crude pictographic symbols. Full definition →

Latin fōrma ← English alphabet ← Middle English alphabete
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)
  2. Medieval Greekἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)
  3. Classical Latinalphabētum
  4. Middle Englishalphabete
  5. Englishalphabet
  6. Latinfōrma
  7. English todayalphabetiform

From alphabet + -iform.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.