The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄκρον“end; peak”
- German · borrowed fromAkronym
- English todayacronym
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’)
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄκρον all →
Akronacromegalyacronemeacropetalakroposthion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.