The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Source: wiktionary
Initialism
//ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm//
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6 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 16 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- sigla noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 首字母縮略詞 /首字母缩略词 noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Danish
2 entries- initialforkortelse noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- initialord noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Dutch
1 entries- initiaalwoord noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Finnish
2 entries- initialismi noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- kirjainlyhenne noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
French
1 entries- sigle noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
German
3 entries- Akronym noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- Buchstabenwort noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- Initialwort noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Greek
1 entries- αρκτικόλεξο noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Hungarian
1 entries- betűszó noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Italian
3 entries- abbreviatura noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- acronimo noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- sigla noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- initialord noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- initialord noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Polish
2 entries- literowiec noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
- skrótowiec literowy noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Portuguese
1 entries- sigla noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Russian
1 entries- инициа́льная аббревиату́ра noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
Spanish
1 entries- sigla noun (term pronounced letter by letter)
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The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.
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