英语词汇alphabet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	alphabet
词源	alphabet [LME] The first two letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha and beta. In Greek these two letters were combined to make the word alphabētos, which was taken as a name for all 24 letters of the Greek alphabet as a whole, just as English-speaking children are taught their ABC.
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