abecedarian

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who is learning the alphabet.
• An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
• Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
• A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.

Adjective

• Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
• Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
• Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
• Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

Origin

• From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.