syllabic abbreviation

English

Noun

syllabic abbreviation (plural syllabic abbreviations)

Examples (Some syllabic abbreviations)

COINTELPRO; from counter-intelligence program CONELRAD; from control of electromagnetic radiation CONMEBOL; from Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (Spanish for "South American Football Confederation") FedEx; from Federal Express INMARSAT; from INternational MARitime SATellite, an IGO Interpol; from International Criminal Police Organization Konami, names of Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, Hiro Matsuda, and Shokichi Ishihara

1. (linguistics) An abbreviation formed from syllables, usually the initial ones, of several words.
   • 2008 March 19, “HE SAYS...So nondescript is the redesign, the car all but fades”, in The Times:

     Subaru named it after the New York zip code Tribeca — a syllabic abbreviation of “Triangle Below Canal Street” — not so much to connote wealth and glamour

Hypernyms

• abbreviation

Translations

Translations

• German: Silbenkurzwort (de) n, Silbenwort (de) n
• Russian: сложносокращённое слово n (složnosokraščónnoje slovo)

See also

• portmanteau (linguistics)
• blend (linguistics)
• Category:English syllabic abbreviations