acronym
意味
- かしら文字語(数語の最初の1字を組み合わせた語;通例は普通の名詞のように発音される;NATO=North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from German Akronym (from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “end; peak”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”)), modelled after Homonym and Synonym, first attested in German in the early 1900s and in English in 1940. By surface analysis, acro- (prefix meaning ‘beginning; high’) + -onym (suffix meaning ‘name’)