FromLatinalphabēticus +-al.[1] Bysurface analysis,alphabet +-ical.
alphabetical (notcomparable)
- Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed byletters of thealphabet.
- Synonym:alphabetic
1986, Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong,Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, page486:Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects ofalphabetical language.
- According to thesequence of the letters of thealphabet.
All names were placed into analphabetical list.
- (obsolete)literal
1644,John Milton,The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce[2], page31:But if analphabeticall servility must be still urged, it may so fall out,
pertaining to the alphabet
in the sequence of the letters of the alphabet
- Arabic:أَلِفْبَائِيّ(ʔalifbāʔiyy),أَبْجَدِيّ(ʔabjadiyy)
- Bulgarian:а́збучен(ázbučen)
- Catalan:alfabètic (ca)
- Czech:abecední (cs)
- Danish:alfabetisk (da)
- Dutch:alfabetisch (nl)
- Esperanto:laŭalfabeta,alfabeta
- Finnish:aakkos- (fi),aakkosellinen (fi)
- French:alphabétique (fr),abécédaire (fr)
- Frisian:
- West Frisian:alfabetysk (fy)
- Galician:alfabético (gl)
- German:alphabetisch (de)
- Greek:αλφαβητικός (el)(alfavitikós)
- Hungarian:alfabetikus (hu),ábécérendi
- Indonesian:alfabetis (id)
- Irish:aibítreach,aibítre
- Italian:alfabetico (it)
- Japanese:アルファベット順の(arufabetto-jun no)
- Korean:알파벳 (ko)(alpabet)
- Latin:abecedarius
- Macedonian:а́збучен(ázbučen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:alfabetisk (no)
- Nynorsk:alfabetisk
- Polish:alfabetyczny (pl),abecadłowy (pl),alfabetowy(dated)
- Portuguese:alfabético (pt)
- Russian:алфави́тный (ru)(alfavítnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic:aibidileach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin:ȁbecēdnī (sh),alfàbētskī
- Slovak:abecedný (sk)
- Spanish:alfabético (es)
- Swedish:alfabetisk (sv)
- Turkish:alfabetik sırayla,alfabetik olarak
- Yiddish:אַלפֿאַבעטיש(alfabetish)
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alphabetical (pluralalphabeticals)
- (crosswording)Ellipsis ofalphabetical jigsaw.
2015 March 13, Hugh Stephenson, “A to Z”, inThe Guardian[3]:We used to publish two, or sometimes three,alphabeticals a year and I am proposing to resume the same sort of frequency.
[1], Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived fromthe original on12 September 2023.