iconomatic

== English == === Alternative forms === ikonomatic === Etymology === A clipping of earlier icononomatic, from a modern combination of Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon, image, likeness”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/ === Adjective === iconomatic (not comparable) The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters. 1887 January 22, "Iconomatic Writing", Scientific American, Vol. 56, No. 4, p. 56: Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “iconomatic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.