英语词汇Xmas的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	Xmas
词源	Xmas [M16th] This term for Christmas, ‘Christ’s mass’, was originally only a written form, with X representing the initial letter of Greek Khristos, ‘Christ’, in the Greek alphabet. It is not possible to tell when people started pronouncing it with the sound of x.
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