anagram
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- anagramme (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Late 16th century, either from Middle French anagramme or Latin anagramma,[1] formed on Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) -gram (“letter”).
Pronunciation
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anagram (plural anagrams)
- (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
- Hyponyms: antigram, synanagram
- Coordinate terms: alphagram, palindrome
- 2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, spoken by Shaun (Simon Pegg):
- As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in "team", but there is an "I" in "pie". And there's an "I" in "meat pie". Anagram of "meat" is "team"… I don't know what he's talking about.
Derived terms
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Verb
[edit]anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)
- To form anagrams.
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References
[edit]- ^ “anagram, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
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[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French anagramme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anagram m inan
Declension
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)
Declension
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Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | anagram | anagrammet | anagrammer | anagrammerne |
genitive | anagrams | anagrammets | anagrammers | anagrammernes |
References
[edit]- “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French anagramme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)
- anagram
- Synonym: letterkeer
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French anagramme, from Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).
Noun
[edit]anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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anagram | n-anagram | hanagram | t-anagram |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anagram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “anagram”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
Polish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French anagramme.[1] By surface analysis, ana- -gram.[2] First attested in 1677–1694.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anagram m inan
- (linguistics) anagram [with genitive or od ( genitive) ‘of what’]
- anagram nazwiska ― anagram of a surname
- anagram imienia ― anagram of a first name
- anagram słowa ― anagram of a word
- anagram nazwy ― anagram of a name (not a person's)
Declension
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nominative | anagram | anagramy |
genitive | anagramu | anagramów |
dative | anagramowi | anagramom |
accusative | anagram | anagramy |
instrumental | anagramem | anagramami |
locative | anagramie | anagramach |
vocative | anagramie | anagramy |
Derived terms
[edit]- anagramować impf
References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “anagram”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “anagram”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (30.08.2022) “ANAGRAMA, *ANAGRAMAT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading
[edit]- anagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “anagramma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “anagram, anagramat, anagrama”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 33
- anagram in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ана̀грам)
Declension
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nominative | anagram | anagrami |
genitive | anagrama | anagrama |
dative | anagramu | anagramima |
accusative | anagram | anagrame |
vocative | anagrame | anagrami |
locative | anagramu | anagramima |
instrumental | anagramom | anagramima |
Swedish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]anagram n
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- anagram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- anagram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- anagram in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
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