In ancient Egypt, the Sphinx is a male statue of a lion with the head of a human, sometimes with wings. Most sphinxes however represent a king in his appearance as the sun god.
An anacronym is an acronym or an abbreviation so old or familiar that no one remembers what its letters stand for, such as BASIC or COBOL . By the way, an acronym is not just any abbreviation. It's a word that is short for other words, usually using their initial letters.
an acronym pronounced ak ruh nihm from greek acro in the sense of extreme or tip and onyma or name is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a pronounceable word the word may already exist or it can be a new word