acrostic

English

Alternative forms

• acrostick (obsolete)
• acrosticke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς.

Noun

Wikipedia acrostic (plural acrostics)

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

Translations

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

• Catalan: acròstic (ca) m
• Hungarian: akrosztichon (hu)
• Icelandic: gripla (is) f
• Irish: acrastaic (ga) f
• Italian: acrostico (it) m

• Russian: акрости́х (ru) (akrostíx) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏кростих (sh) m

  Roman: ȁkrostih (sh) m

• Spanish: acróstico (es) m

Derived terms

• double acrostic
• triple acrostic

See also

• word square

External links

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

Anagrams

• Socratic