# Looking for a word relating to the 'birth of Christ' **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 9, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882 "2014-02-09T05:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/1 "2014-02-09T05:30:05Z")
I think it starts with a ‘c,’ and possibly ‘co.’ It’s not a common word, and as I recall looking it up, it typically doesn’t apply to anything else other than Christ’s birth (or something else about him). I read it in something a minister wrote, but now I can’t find it. Sorry for the crappy clues. [And it’s not ‘coeval’.] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/2 "2014-02-09T05:50:55Z")
Accouchement? Shot in the dark, I know. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/3 "2014-02-09T06:07:54Z")
Crèche? [Crèche - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A8che) ---
**Author:** ![Chickenwrangler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chickenwrangler/32/91_2.png) [@Chickenwrangler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenwrangler)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/4 "2014-02-09T08:06:49Z")
Christmas 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/5 "2014-02-09T08:49:09Z")
Not as simple as Christology (I have made the error of ignoring the obvious when searching for the right word!) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/6 "2014-02-09T09:35:06Z")
Annunciation? ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/7 "2014-02-09T10:32:58Z")
A.D. is Anno Domini . There’s an equivalent which is C.E. Common Era, so it may be that someone remembered C.E. as " starts with the supposed birth of Jesus". “The nativity” is also Christum Natum. That starts with C but its two words. credo quia absurdum est … Well maybe ? Here’s a list of many latin phrases, not a full dictionary of latin. [http://latin-phrases.co.uk/quotes/religious/](http://latin-phrases.co.uk/quotes/religious/) or wiki … > **[List of Latin phrases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases)** > > This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. > To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) > The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages: > **[List of ecclesiastical abbreviations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecclesiastical_abbreviations)** > > The ecclesiastical words most commonly abbreviated at all times are proper names, titles (official or customary), of persons or corporations, and words of frequent occurrence. A list of abbreviations used in Roman Republican and early Imperial times may be seen in James Chidester Egbert, Jr.'s Latin Inscriptions (New York City, 1896), 417–459. > The Jewish scribes and Talmudic scholars also had frequent recourse to abbreviations. Between the seventh and ninth centuries the ancient Roman system o... credo quia absurdum est ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/8 "2014-02-09T15:03:06Z")
> [@Chickenwrangler](#): > > Christmas > > 🙂 That’s what I was thinking. You can argue about the exact date, But Christmas is meant to remember the birth of Christ. But that’s probably not what the OP is looking for. The wiki page for Christmas has some other words that might work for you…Cristemasse or Khrīstos, there’s a few others as well if you skim the page. ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/9 "2014-02-09T15:14:57Z")
Doesn’t fit your criteria, but I think the word you’re looking for is “Incarnation”–God made flesh ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/10 "2014-02-09T15:46:51Z")
corporature? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/11 "2014-02-09T18:37:30Z")
Off the wall guess: The Catholic Mass recently returned to referring in the Creed to the Father and Son as “_consubstantial_” in place of the phrase “_one in being with_.” It is not directly connected to the birth of Jesus, however. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/12 "2014-02-09T18:52:14Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Annunciation? No, that refers to the angel Gabriel coming to Mary to tell her that she was going to give birth to the Son of God. (See, all that Catholic education DOES pay off! :D) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/13 "2014-02-09T19:50:54Z")
[Catholic Encyclopaedia: C](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/c.htm) I don’t see any likely candidates there. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/14 "2014-02-09T19:57:54Z")
> [@turner](#): > > Doesn’t fit your criteria, but I think the word you’re looking for is “Incarnation”–God made flesh This is my first suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/15 "2014-02-09T20:54:26Z")
Not related to the nativity, but these are the best I could come up with that haven’t been mentioned: Christophany: an appearance by Christ after his ascension Chiliasm: the doctrine that Christ will rule the earth during the millennium ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/16 "2014-02-09T20:55:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > corporature? This might be it, at least it’s the closest so far. The same person who used it also used the word [‘aseity’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseity) in another message, also a first-time word for me. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/17 "2014-02-09T20:58:46Z")
> [@turner](#): > > Doesn’t fit your criteria, but I think the word you’re looking for is “Incarnation”–God made flesh “incarnation” is used in other contexts (“XXX in it’s current incarnation is a piece of crap, the old one was better.”). When used in the “God made flesh” sense, it’s often the “holy incarnation”. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/18 "2014-02-09T21:21:34Z")
Enmangering. ---
**Author:** ![bardos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bardos/32/1069_2.png) [@bardos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bardos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-word-relating-to-the-birth-of-christ/680882/19 "2014-02-09T21:43:16Z")
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