| 单词 |
iconomatic |
| 释义 |
iconomatic, a.|aɪkɒnəˈmætɪk|
Also ikon-.
[contr. for icononomatic, f. Gr. εἰκών, εἰκονο- icon + ὄνοµα, ὀνοµατ- name + -ic.]
A word proposed to describe a stage intermediate between picture-writing and phonetic writing, in which pictures or representations of objects stand not for the objects themselves, but for their names considered merely as phonetic elements, as in a pictorial rebus, or the use made by the Chinese of the sounds of their characters to express the sound of a foreign word. Hence iconoˈmatically adv.; iconoˈmaticism; iconomaˈtography.
1886D. G. Brinton Ess. Americanist (1890) 207–8 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, from the Greek εἰκον, a figure or image, and ὄνοµα..name, a writing by means of the names of the figures or images represented. The corresponding noun would be ikonomatography. 1887Sci. Amer. 22 Jan. 56 Iconomatic writing..occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing. Ibid., How complete a system of iconomaticism they [Egyptian and Chinese writing] passed through is unknown. 1895Hoffmann Begin. Writing 70 Ikonomatically. |
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