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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

A.M.

or M.A. When the Latin form is intended the A comes first, as Artium Magister; but where the English form is meant the M precedes, as Master of Arts.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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