crismon

== Latin == === Etymology === Medieval Latin; the meaning "chrism" is attested in the 12th century, apparently by corruption of Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsmă), from χρίω (khríō, “to anoint”). The meaning "Christogram" is of uncertain origin; Millin (1817) suggests derivation from χρησμός (khrēsmós, “oracle”) specifically in the instance of the "Chrismon Sancti Ambrosii" (i.e. the "oracle of St. Ambrose), an ancient Chi-Rho symbol on a marble slab in Milan cathedral, from which the term chrismon would have been transferred to the Chi-Rho symbol in general. === Noun === crismon n (genitive crismī); second declension Christogram, chrismon (Chi-Rho monogram) chrism c. 1130: "In sabbato secundo de Quadragesima, duo minores custodes septimanarii […] debent quærere cilicium ab archiepiscopo, et debent portare in medio ecclesiæ, et facere Chrismon super illud decurrere." L. A. Murator, Antiquitates Italicae medii aevi vol. 4, col. 912. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type). ==== Derived terms ==== chrismos, chrismum, chrismus ==== Descendants ==== → English: chrismon → German: Chrismon === References === "crismon", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)