Some early Christians made the Greek word for fish, ichthus, into an acronym for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior." (See "The Original Christian Bumper Sticker" by Collin Hansen.) Tertullian ...

The genus name Saurichthys derives from the Greek word "sauros" meaning lizard and the Greek word "Ichthus" meaning fish. The species name justicias derives from the Latin term "iustitia" meaning ...

Fish were also used as sign by early Christians to identify themselves, for example for marking out and recognising designated meeting places. It was known as the ichthus, and used alongside the ...