abecedarium

American  

[ey-bee-see-dair-ee-uhm] / ˌeɪ bi siˈdɛər i əm /

noun

plural

abecedaria

1. a primer, especially for teaching the alphabet.

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Etymology

Origin of abecedarium

From Medieval Latin

Example Sentences

Rather than follow the Anglocentric pattern of apple, ball and cat, it looks across a wide variety of languages to create a new abecedarium.

From New York Times

The oldest abecedarium in existence is a child's alphabet on a little ink-bottle of black ware found on the site of Cere, one of the oldest of the Greek settlements in Central Italy, certainly older than the end of the sixth century B. C. The Phœnician alphabet has been reconstructed from several hundred inscriptions.

From Project Gutenberg

The curious ritual act, technically known as the abecedarium, i.e. the tracing of the alphabet, sometimes in Latin characters, sometimes in Latin and Greek, sometimes, according to Menard, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, along the limbs of St Andrew’s cross on the floor of the church, can be traced back to the 8th century and may be earlier.

From Project Gutenberg

Altogether they create an enveloping abecedarium in Tandem Press’s booth, one of 90 on hand at the Park Avenue Armory.

From New York Times

Of later English-Latin dictionaries two deserve passing mention: the Abecedarium of Richard Huloet or Howlet, a native of Wisbech, which appeared in the reign of Edward VI, in 1552, and the Alvearie of John Baret, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, published under Elizabeth in 1573.

From Project Gutenberg