acrostic
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɒstɪk/
The English word “acrostic” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
- A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to acrostics.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), from ἄκρο- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to climb,…
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