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Naming letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.
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Acrophony — (Greek: acro uppermost, head + phonos sound) is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter s name begins with the letter itself. For instance, apple, aardvark, and alpha are acrophonic names for the English letter A… … Wikipedia
Acrophony — A*croph o*ny, n. [Gr. a kros extreme + ? sound.] The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object. [1913 Webster] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
acrophony — См. acrofonia … Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов
acrophony — acrophonic /ak reuh fon ik/, acrophonetic /ak reuh feuh net ik/, adj. acrophonically, acrophonetically, adv. /euh krof euh nee/, n., pl. acrophonies. 1. the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the… … Universalium
acrophony — acroph·o·ny … English syllables
acrophony — /əˈkrɒfəni/ (say uh krofuhnee) noun the naming of letters in an alphabetic writing system so that a word which has the initial sound of the letter is taken as the name of the letter, as if apple, for example, were the name for A …
acrophony — noun naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter • Hypernyms: ↑naming … Useful english dictionary
Middle Bronze Age alphabets — The Middle Bronze Age alphabets are two similar undeciphered scripts, dated to be from the Middle Bronze Age (2000 1500 BCE), and believed to be ancestral to nearly all modern alphabets: * the Proto Sinaitic script discovered in the winter of… … Wikipedia
acrophonie — ⇒ACROPHONIE, subst. fém. LING. Attribution à un idéogramme de la valeur phonique du premier phonème (ou de la première syllabe) du terme qu il sert à figurer; ainsi le caractère sémitique Beth, idéogramme de la maison à l origine, a servi à… … Encyclopédie Universelle
acrology — əˈkräləjē noun ( es) Etymology: French acrologie, from acr + logie logy : acrophony * * * acrologic /ak reuh loj ik/, adj. acrologically, adv … Useful english dictionary
