Art & MusicGreek → English
Alphabet
/ˈælfəbɛt/
The set of letters used to write a language.
The Greek roots
ἄλφα
álpha
first letter A
βῆτα
bêta
second letter B
Literally: “alpha-beta”
The story of the word
Stitch together the names of the first two Greek letters and you get the word for the whole ordered set of them.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
Children learn the alphabet before they learn to read.