backronymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of back +‎ acronym.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.ɹəˌnɪm/
• 韻: -ækɹənɪm

名詞

backronym (複数形 backronyms)

1. A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes as a folk etymology, sometimes as a contrived acronym to name a new organization, proposal, or other entity.
   • 2018 March 14, Sarah Lewin, “Meet ‘Steve,’ the Aurora-Like Mystery Scientists Are Beginning to Unravel”, in space.com, retrieved 17 March 2018:

     [T]he phenomenon has been dubbed STEVE, a backronym that matches the name originally given by aurora watchers. (STEVE is short for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement.")

   • 2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     These reverse-engineered acronyms, or “backronyms,” are inescapable on Capitol Hill. Two of the biggest laws of the past few years were the CARES Act, for pandemic relief, and the CHIPS for America Act, for semiconductor manufacturing.

派生語

• backronymic

参考

• recursive acronym

動詞

backronym (三人称単数 現在形 backronyms, 現在分詞 backronyming または backronymming, 過去形および過去分詞形 backronymed または backronymmed)

1. To create a backronym.

Further reading

• backronym on Wikipedia.
• “backronym”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.