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Latin
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
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).