alphabetaryt (alfabetari)

[NL. αι phabetarius, LL. alpha be tum: see alphabet and -ary.] Alphabetic; rudimentary. alphabetic (al-fa-bet'ik), a. [F. alphabétique = Sp. alfabético = Pg. alfabetico, alphabetico = It. alfabetico, customarily arranged. tory of alphabetic development the Phenic i ans inherited the results, and their alphabet was a simple scheme of twenty-two characters, the names of which. began respectively with the sound which each represented. Either of the Egyptian or of some other analogous his Whitney, Oriental and Ling. Studies, p. 194. The normal retention by the Greeks of the primitive alphabetic order renders easy the identification of the Greek letters with their Phœnician prototypes. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 72.