"iconomatic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation]
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”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|icononomatic}} icononomatic, {{der|en|grc|εἰκών||icon, image, likeness}} Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon, image, likeness”), {{m|grc|ὄνομα||name}} ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), {{m|grc|-ικός||-ic: forming adjectives}} -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} iconomatic (not comparable)
  1. 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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: ikonomatic Derived forms: iconomatically, iconomaticism, iconomatography
    Sense id: en-iconomatic-en-adj-wzx5Xlmk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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