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单词 iconomatic
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iconomaticadj.

/ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/
Forms: Also ikonomatic.
Etymology: contracted < icononomatic, < Greek εἰκών , εἰκονο- icon n. + ὄνομα , ὀνοματ- name + -ic suffix.
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.
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iconomatic1887
1887 Sci. Amer. 22 Jan. 56 Iconomatic writing..occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing.

Derivatives

iconoˈmatically adv.
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1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing 70 Ikonomatically.
iconoˈmaticism n.
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iconomatography1886
iconomaticism1887
1887 Sci. Amer. 22 Jan. 56 How complete a system of iconomaticism they [Egyptian and Chinese writing] passed through is unknown.
iconomaˈtography n.
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iconomatography1886
iconomaticism1887
1886 D. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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