Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

iconomatic

/ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: icono-mat-ic
IPA: /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Example Sentences

"We have, so far as I am aware, no scientific term to express this manner of phonetic writing, and I propose for it therefore the adjective ikonomatic..."
"Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing."

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”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: εἰκών

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/

Inflected Forms

ikonomatic (alternative)

Derived Forms

iconomatically iconomaticism iconomatography

Questions

How do you pronounce iconomatic?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/.
What does iconomatic mean?: 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.
Where does iconomatic come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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