logogriph

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log·o·griph

(lô′gə-grĭf′, lŏg′ə-)

A word puzzle, such as an anagram or one in which clues are given in a set of verses.

[logo- + Greek grīphos, fishing basket, riddle.]

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logogriph

(ˈlɒɡəʊˌɡrɪf)

a word puzzle, esp one based on recombination of the letters of a word

[C16: via French from logo- + Greek grīphos puzzle]

ˌlogoˈgriphic adj

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log•o•griph

(ˈlɔ gə grɪf, ˈlɒg ə-)

n.

an anagram or other word puzzle.

[1590–1600; logo- + Greek grîphos a fishing basket, riddle]

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For example, a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Latin Riddles, edited and discussed by Andrew Galloway, similarly shows a remarkable conflation of the learned and the erotic, as observed in the following logogriph (my translation): "Dimidium lune paradisi porcio quarta, / Et primum nardi faciunt loculos vacuari" (26) [Half of the moon (i.e., lu, the first syllable of lune) and the fourth portion of Paradise (i.e., pa), the first (part) of nardi (nards, i.e., nar), making the (other) compartments empty (i.e., discarding the remaining two letters of the word)].

In this sense, Eusebius's inclusion of the term "lena" therefore recalls subtype 3 as exemplified by the lupanar logogriph above.

The sexual riddle type in Aldhelm's Enigmata, the Exeter Book, and early medieval Latin

The metalinguistic games involved here, the encoding and decoding of "riddles" or "secrets" within logogriphs, palindromes, anagrams, and extensive punning (often bilingual), are as elaborate as any that one might encounter anywhere in the very extensive literature on riddles.