acrostic

English

Alternative forms

acrostick, acrosticke (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French acrostiche, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), late 16th c.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkɹɔstɪk/
(cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈkɹɑstɪk/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkɹɒstɪk/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒstɪk, -ɔːstɪk
Hyphenation: acros‧tic

Noun

acrostic (plural acrostics)

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Irish: acrastach

Translations

poem or text with certain letters spelling out a name or message

Catalan: acròstic (ca) m
Esperanto: akrostiĥo
French: acrostiche (fr) m or f
German: Akrostichon (de) n
Greek: ακροστιχίδα (el) f (akrostichída)
Hungarian: akrosztichon (hu)
Icelandic: gripla f
Interlingue: acrosticon
Irish: acrastaic f

Italian: acrostico (it) m
Portuguese: acróstico (pt) m
Romanian: acrostih (ro) n
Russian: акрости́х (ru) m (akrostíx)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̏кростих m

Roman: ȁkrostih (sh) m
Spanish: acróstico (es) m
Swedish: akrostikon (sv) n

See also

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Racicots, Ritaccos, Socratic, sarcotic

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