Where does “acrostic” come from?
Acrostic comes from Middle French acrostique, a word formed to denote a poem or text where initial letters spell out a message or name.
acrostic (English): A poem or other text in which certain letters,...
Definitions
- A poem or other text in which certain letters,...
Ancestry of “acrostic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | acrostiche | — |
| 2 | Latin | acrostichis | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ἀκροστιχίς | acrostic |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἄκρος | At the edge, extreme, beginning, end: outermost;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ὦμος | the shoulder with the upper arm |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃émōs | shoulder |