Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the development of alphabetic writing, the use of a symbolic picture of an object or idea to represent phonetically the initial syllable, or the initial sound, of the name of that object or idea; as in giving to the Egyptian hieroglyph for nefer, good, the phonetic value of ne, its first syllable, or of n, its first letter. See
acrology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Naming
letters in analphabetic writing system using words whose initialsounds are represented by the respective letters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (acros, "uppermost, beginning") + φωνή (phōnē, "sound"). acro- + -phony
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Examples
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The assumption is that they developed a Semitic script based on acrophony, where the first sound of the Semitic name of an Egyptian glyph came to be the value of that glyph.
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The assumption is that they developed a Semitic script based on acrophony, where the first sound of the Semitic name of an Egyptian glyph came to be the value of that glyph.
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- Astronomy, happening at sunset, especially of star whose rising is at sunset. acrophony
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