abecedarium
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A book or list that shows alphabet letters in order to help people learn them
- noun
- /ˌeɪbɪˈsiːˌdɛəriəm/
- Literature
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abecedario
- The teacher used an abecedarium to help the children learn the letters of the alphabet.
Examples
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In her classroom, the abecedarium was displayed prominently on the wall for students to reference.
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An abecedarium is a helpful tool for beginners to understand the structure of the alphabet.
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To imagine I could comprehend the Homo sapiens brain, the most complex object in the known universe, within the 26 compartments of an abecedarium.
Academic text (2010)
Surface Forms
abecedarium singular
abecedaria plural
Etymology
Abecedarium comes from the Latin naming of the letters A, B, C, D. So an abecedarium was originally a book or list that showed the 'ABCs' and was used to teach the order of the letters.