christogramma

• Christogramma

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʰrɪs.tɔˈɡram.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kris.t̪oˈɡram.ma]

chrīstogramma n (genitive chrīstogrammatis); third declension

1. (New Latin) Christogram
   • 1839, Museum Münterianum. pars III. Numos Byzantiorum aliorumque et antiquitates varii generis continens (auction catalogue)‎^[1], page 18:

     Imperator paludatus stans, d. labarum, cui inscriptum Christogramma, s. sceptrum; adstante et imperatorem coronante Victoria.

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   • 1992, Inscriptiones Christianae vrbis Romae septimo saecvlo antiqviores: Nova series‎^[2], volume 10, page 161:

     Cernuntur tantum nonnullae litterae et christogrammata graphio scripta in parietibus, sed numquam uidentur antiqua, immo uero saec. XIX et XX.

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).