...Allotropy, Gr. allos, other, and tropos, direction, 395Allegheny R., [Ind. River of the Alligewi], 47. Alphabet, [from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet], 259. Altai Mts.,(u. Alumina, 228. Aluminium, Al*, 27, $, Sp. gr. a.6; 228. Amazon R., [Ind. ' boat...

...grammar, alphabet, noun, neuter, participle, plural, vowel, diphthong, apposition. Alphabet is derived from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, and denotes the collection of letters used to represent sounds. Noun, from the Latin nomen, name, is...

...possessive genitive of nouns ending in s is omitted; as, Bacchus' for Bacchus's. CHAPTER II. GRAMMATOLOQY. SECTION I. The Alphabet. LETTERS are symbols used...sound by itself. A Consonant (from con, together, and soiw, I sound) is a letter that requires to be sounded together with a vowel or a diphthong to make...

...according as you point up or down. In Egypt and in Syria, picture and idea writing soon developed into the alphabet (from Alpha and Beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet) somewhere about the time of Moses, one thousand five hundred years before Christ. There can be little...

...Greeks, in the dawn of their history, did most to bring it to the stage of comparative perfection. From alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, in its ultimate form, the word alphabet is derived, although, by going back further, we find aleph...

...members, elected annually. The mayor has no power of appointment. Pop. (1910) 12,706. MICHAEL O'BRIEN. Alphabet (from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), the ordinary series of the letters or syllables (in syllabic alphabets) of a language. For an account of...

...alphabet noun alphabets An alphabet is the letters of a language arranged in order. [Alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.] alphabetical adjective Alphabetical means in the same order as the alphabet, alphabetically adverb....

...of 13 members, elected annually. The mayor has no power of appointment. Pop. (1910) 12,706. MICHAEL Alphabet (from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), the ordinary series of the letters or syllables (in syllabic alphabets) of a language. For an account of...