acrostic

Etymology
Borrowed from, (modern 🇨🇬), and its  , from , from  +  (ultimately from ).

Noun

 * 1) A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
 * 2) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 3) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
 * 2) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
 * 1) A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: akrostiĥo, akrostiko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gripla
 * Interlingua: acrosticon
 * Irish: acrastach, acrastaic
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̏кростих
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: akrostik
 * Ukrainian: акрові́рш


 * Hebrew: אקרוסטיכון,

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to acrostics.