" Madam , I ’m Adam . " If Adam say this on meet Eve in the Garden of Eden , it would have definitely been the first palindrome . What ’s a palindrome you inquire ? It ’s aphrase(or a sentence , or a paragraph , or a chronicle , or a poem or even a appointment ) that reads the same backward and forrard . Whether you start on the rightfield or the left , and not report for punctuation mark , that sentence reads , " Madam , I ’m Adam . "
The word palindrome come from the Greek " palin- " intend back or again , and " -dromos , " which means running or moving . So it ’s a word or set phrase that ’s running back on itself .
Thefirst palindromewe know of amount from 70 C.E. , and it ’s in Latin :
This is translated as either " The sower Arepo go for the wheel with sweat " or " The sower Arepo leads with his paw the plough . " That Scripture " rotas " can relate to a bike or to a plow or even to a chariot , but it ’s very unlikely that a sower would have anything as fancy as a chariot .
Thefirst mentionof palindrome in English comes in " Camden ’s Remaines , " published in 1636 by John Philipot :
But even Philipot gives the reader palindromes inLatin , not Greek — and not even English . The first means " secluded but pure , " and the second " Give me my fee , and I warrant you free . " ( In other Logos , if you ante up me , I ’ll free you . )
In 1706 , we find an early English palindrome in " The fresh world of Holy Writ ; or universal English lexicon " :
This one only turn if you have loose spelling normal for the word " dwell , " as they did in the other 18th century . And if you kind of ignore the " and " in the middle . But it ’s still a moderately juicy palindrome .
Some words are palindrome in themselves , like " kayak " and " racecar . " Some name calling are palindromes too , like " Otto . " Some numbers are palindrome , like 180081 . And there arepalindrome days , such as Dec. 2 , 2021 , which , when writing date , you ’d commonly see as 12 - 02 - 2021 , not 12022021 .
It ’s possible to create a palindrome word by word or line by agate line rather than missive by varsity letter too . A simple instance might be " night after night . " This instance add up from the poem " Doppelganger , " which was constructed by James A. Lindon to read the same backward and forwards .
Here are some more New , correctly spelled , non - Latin , missive - by - letter palindrome .
