"alfabeto" meaning in English

See alfabeto in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|alfabeto||alphabet}} Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”), {{doublet|en|alphabet}} Doublet of alphabet Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} alfabeto (uncountable)
  1. Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-alfabeto-en-noun-kZjFujyM
  2. (music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords. Tags: historical, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-alfabeto-en-noun-Q6H1jC8H Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Download JSON data for alfabeto meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "alfabeto",
        "4": "",
        "5": "alphabet"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alphabet"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of alphabet",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "alfabeto (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Holonym: alphabet soup"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media",
          "text": "Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet."
      ],
      "id": "en-alfabeto-en-noun-kZjFujyM",
      "links": [
        [
          "Noodles",
          "noodle"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127",
          "text": "The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, \"centonized\" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30",
          "text": "Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732)",
          "text": "In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords."
      ],
      "id": "en-alfabeto-en-noun-Q6H1jC8H",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "chord",
          "chord"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alfabeto"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Italian",
    "English terms derived from Italian",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "alfabeto",
        "4": "",
        "5": "alphabet"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alphabet"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of alphabet",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian alfabeto (“alphabet”). Doublet of alphabet.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "alfabeto (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Holonym: alphabet soup"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, The New Slow Cooker Cookbook, Adams Media",
          "text": "Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Noodles",
          "noodle"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Journal of the Lute Society of America, volumes 17-18, page 127",
          "text": "The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, \"centonized\" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's alfabeto, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the alfabeto books, and so forth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Betty Bang Mather, Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque: A Handbook for Performance, page 30",
          "text": "Composers for harpsichord, lute, viol, and guitar often placed chords or ornaments on notes in the positions of those strummed downward in the alfabeto tablatures, and composers for all instruments gave longer values to many of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Stanley Yates, The baroque guitar, late Spanish style as represented by Santiago de Murcia in the Salvidar manuscript (1732)",
          "text": "In the Italian system, each letter of the alfabeto represents a chord formation on the guitar (the letter A, for example, represents a G-major chord).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "chord",
          "chord"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, historical) An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alfabeto"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.