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christogramma
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Latin
Alternative forms
- Christogramma
Etymology
From Chrīstus + -o- + gramma. Nonce-usage in 19th-century German numismatics, used in parallel with German Christogramm for Latin monogramma Christi, from the later 20th century more frequently used in Latin-language literature on art history and epigraphy.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʰrɪs.tɔˈɡram.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kris.toˈɡram.ma]
Noun
chrīstogramma n (genitive chrīstogrammatis); third declension
- (New Latin) Christogram
- 1839, Museum Münterianum. pars III. Numos Byzantiorum aliorumque et antiquitates varii generis continens (auction catalogue), page 18:
- Imperator paludatus stans, d. labarum, cui inscriptum Christogramma, s. sceptrum; adstante et imperatorem coronante Victoria.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1992, Inscriptiones Christianae vrbis Romae septimo saecvlo antiqviores: Nova series, volume 10, page 161:
- Cernuntur tantum nonnullae litterae et christogrammata graphio scripta in parietibus, sed numquam uidentur antiqua, immo uero saec. XIX et XX.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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