phonetico-
(fəʊˈnɛtɪkəʊ)
combining form (on Greek analogy) of phonetic, as in phoˌneticograˈmmatical a., relating to the phonetic part of grammar; phoˌnetico-hieroˈglyphic a., of or belonging to hieroglyphics with a phonetic value; phonetico-ideoˈgraphic a., of or pertaining to ideographs having a phonetic value; phonetico-phoˈnemic a., employing both phonetic and phonemic criteria.
| 1879 Whitney Sanskrit Gram. p. x, A number of phonetico-grammatical treatises. 1826 Edin. Rev. XLV. 141 The high antiquity of the phonetico-hieroglyphic system in Egypt. 1891 C. Lombroso Man of Genius iii. ii. 189 This mixture of letters, hieroglyphics, and figurative signs, constitutes a kind of writing recalling the phonetico-ideographic stage through which primitive peoples (the Mexicans and Chinese certainly) passed, before the discovery of alphabetic writing. 1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. iv. 85 M. Swadesh..distinguished between the two categories [sc. long and short vowels] on a mixed phonetico-phonemic basis. |