syllabic abbreviation

English

Noun

syllabic abbreviation (plural syllabic abbreviations) Template:examples-right

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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: сложносокращённое слово n (složnosokraščónnoje slovo)

See also

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