initialism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
    — The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
  2. The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.
    — The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.

词形变化

initialisms plural

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree
English initial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English initialism
From initial + -ism.
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