英语词汇xmas的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Xmas. Xmas is neither an abbreviation nor a “vulgar com- mercial invention” of recent vintage. X has been used to sym- bolize the syllable “Christ” in English since at least 1100, when it was recorded in Xianity, for “Christianity.” The Old English word for Christian recorded in the 12th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begins with an X, and the word Xmas itself was used as early as 1551. The Greek word that gives us the English word Christ begins with the letter chi, or X, leading some writers to believe that the X in Xmas symbolized the cross.

词汇	xmas
词源	Xmas. Xmas is neither an abbreviation nor a “vulgar com- mercial invention” of recent vintage. X has been used to sym- bolize the syllable “Christ” in English since at least 1100, when it was recorded in Xianity, for “Christianity.” The Old English word for Christian recorded in the 12th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begins with an X, and the word Xmas itself was used as early as 1551. The Greek word that gives us the English word Christ begins with the letter chi, or X, leading some writers to believe that the X in Xmas symbolized the cross.
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