English Dictionary

initialism

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm/

名詞

(linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

日本語の意味

頭文字語：複数の単語や語句の最初の文字を取り、その文字を個別に発音して表す略語。

Many linguists describe 'FBI' as an initialism because its letters are pronounced individually rather than as a single word.

多くの言語学者は「FBI」を、各語の頭文字を並べて作られ、一文字ずつ発音される語だと説明します。単語のように一まとまりで発音されるものとは区別されます。

意味（1）

(linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

意味（2）

(linguistics) 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.

initialisms （ plural ）