19 June 2015

epigram

[ep-i-gram]

noun
1. any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
2. epigrammatic expression:
Oscar Wilde had a genius for epigram.
3. a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.

Origin of epigram
late Middle English Latin Greek
1400-1450; late Middle English < Latin epigramma < Greek epígramma inscription, epigram. See epi-, -gram1

Can be confused
epigram, epigraph, epitaph, epithet.

Synonyms
1. witticism, quip, bon mot.

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Today’s quote

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

– Charles Darwin

On this day

19 June 1623 – birth of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour.

19 June 1945 – birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.

19 June 1978 – The original Grumpy Cat, Garfield, first appears in newspaper comic strips in the USA.