different between acrostic vs abecedarius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (akrostikhís), from ????- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + ??????? (stíkhos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?- (“to climb, go”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k??st?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k??st?k/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??k??st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k, -??st?k
• Hyphenation: acros?tic

Noun

acrostic (plural acrostics) (also attributively)

1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. [from 16th c.]
2. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
3. A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often forming the name of its author.

Alternative forms

• acrostick, acrosticke (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• telestich
• word square

Derived terms

• double acrostic
• triple acrostic

Descendants

• ? Irish: acrastach

Translations

Adjective

acrostic (comparative more acrostic, superlative most acrostic)

1. Of or pertaining to acrostics.
   • 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, p. 42

     Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code.

Alternative forms

• acrostick, acrosticke (obsolete)

Translations

References

Further reading

• acrostic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• acrostic (puzzle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Racicots, Ritaccos, Socratic, sarcotic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin abeced?rius, from Late Latin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?e?.bi?si?dæ?.i.?s/

Noun

abecedarius (plural abecedariuses or abecedarii)

1. An acrostic poem in which the lines begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence.

References

Latin

Etymology

From the first four letters of Latin's alphabet, ? b? c? d?, + -arius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.be.ke?da?.ri.us/, [äb?k??d?ä??i?s?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /a.be.ke?da?.ri.us/, [a?eke?da?r??s]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.be.t??e?da.ri.us/, [?b?t????d????ius]

Adjective

abeced?rius (feminine abeced?ria, neuter abeced?rium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the alphabet—alphabetical, alphabetic.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• abeced?ria
• abeced?rium

Descendants

• English: abecedarius
• French: abécédaire
• Romanian: abecedar

Noun

abeced?rius m (genitive abeced?ri? or abeced?r?); second declension

1. One who learns the ABCs.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• abecedarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abecedarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• abecedarius in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016