The corpus record — Latin

ăbĕcĕdārĭus

belonging to the alphabet, alphabetical

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

ăbĕcĕdārĭus, a, uma, b, c, d,

I belonging to the alphabet, alphabetical (late Lat.).

I Adj.: psalmi, Aug. Retract. 1, 20. —

II Subst.

A ăbĕcĕdāĭus, ĭi, m., one who learns the a, b, c (eccl. Lat.). —

B ăbĕcĕdārĭa, ae, f., elementary instruction, Fulg. Myth. 3, 10. —

C ăbĕ-cĕdārĭum, ĭi, n., a, b, c, the alphabet (eccl. Lat.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.