acrónimo — meaning in English
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English meaning
- acronym noun A word formed from the first letters of a longer phrase, especially one pronounced as a single word rather than spelled out.
Senses
acrónimo is used for these senses in English:
- acronym (linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.
- portmanteau word (linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.