chronogram
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|Chronogram on the Belfry of Thuin in Belgium: " reæDIfICor baptIstæ CherMan̄e soLertIa" thumb|Portrait of Henry van Gameren, with Chronogram A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals (such as Roman numerals), stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning "time writing", derives from the Greek words chronos (χρόνος "time") and gramma (γράμμα, "letter").
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- inscription
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- CHRONO - omnia cadunt - LIPSIUS AD 1606.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chronograms in writing
- uses
- Roman numerals
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- February 7
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Roman numerals
- Hebrew numerals
- In epitaphs
- In books
- In poetry
- Arabic numerals
- In epitaphs
- In books
- In names
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.3|Chronogram on the Belfry of Thuin in Belgium: " reæDIfICor baptIstæ CherMan̄e soLertIa" thumb|Portrait of Henry van Gameren, with Chronogram A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals (such as Roman numerals), stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning "time writing", derives from the Greek words chronos (χρόνος "time") and gramma (γράμμα, "letter").
In the pure chronogram, each word contains a numeral; the natural chronogram shows all numerals in the correct numerical order, e.g. AMORE MATVRITAS = MMVI = 2006. Chronograms in versification are referred to as chronosticha if they are written in hexameter and chronodisticha if they are written in distich.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chronogram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.