The story
- Ancient Greekἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)
- Medieval Greekἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)
- Classical Latinalphabētum
- Middle Englishalphabete
- Englishalphabet
- Englishalpha-
- Englishsyllabary
- English todayalphasyllabary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
alphasyllabary
Today it means: A segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit, and where each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary; an abugida. Full definition →
English syllabary ← Middle English alphabete ← Classical Latin alphabētum