Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LOGOGRAM
logogram, logograph
(noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; “7 is a logogram that is pronounced ‘seven’ in English and ‘nanatsu’ in Japanese”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
logogram (plural logograms)
A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.
A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
Synonyms
• (character or symbol that represents a word or phrase): logograph
Hyponyms
• heterogram
Arameogram
Sumerogram
Source: Wiktionary
Log"o*gram, n. Etym: [Gr. -gram.]
Definition: A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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