a. [mod. f. Gr. ἄκρο-, see ACRO- + φωνητ-ός to be uttered + -IC.] Pertaining to acrophony.
1866. Felton, Ant. & Mod. Greece, I. iii. 49. The principle of this alphabetic element has received the technical name of acrophonetic, or the principle of initial sounds.
