LATIN ALPHABET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Latin alphabet mean? 

• LATIN ALPHABET (noun)
  The noun LATIN ALPHABET has 1 sense:

1. the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe

  Familiarity information: LATIN ALPHABET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATIN ALPHABET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet

Hypernyms ("Latin alphabet" is a kind of...):

bicameral script (a script having two distinct cases)

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

Meronyms (members of "Latin alphabet"):

ezed; izzard; Z; zed; zee (the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet)

wye; Y (the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet)

ex; X (the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet)

double-u; W (the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet)

V (the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet)

U (the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet)

T (the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet)

S (the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet)

R (the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet)

Q (the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet)

P (the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet)

O (the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet)

N (the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet)

M (the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet)

L (the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet)

K (the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet)

J (the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet)

I (the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet)

H (the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet)

G (the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet)

F (the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet)

E (the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet)

D (the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet)

C (the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet)

B (the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet)

A (the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet)

 Context examples 

In most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, "a" denotes an open central unrounded vowel (/a/).

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)