phonetico-|fəʊˈnɛtɪkəʊ|combining form (on Greek analogy) of phonetic, as in phoˌneticograˈmmaticala., relating to the phonetic part of grammar; phoˌnetico-hieroˈglyphica., of or belonging to hieroglyphics with a phonetic value; phonetico-ideoˈgraphica., of or pertaining to ideographs having a phonetic value; phonetico-phoˈnemica., employing both phonetic and phonemic criteria.1879Whitney Sanskrit Gram. p. x, A number of phonetico-grammatical treatises.1826Edin.Rev. XLV. 141 The high antiquity of the phonetico-hieroglyphic system in Egypt.1891C. 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.1952A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. iv. 85 M. Swadesh..distinguished between the two categories [sc. long and short vowels] on a mixed phonetico-phonemic basis.