The four basic acts on stored things: create, read, update, delete. A named shorthand rather than a concept.
Modern English acronym (Create, Read, Update, Delete), coined in software engineering in the 1980s; the four basic acts on any stored thing, named as a deliberate shorthand rather than inherited from an older word.
The four basic acts on stored things, named all at once by their initials. It is a made shorthand, not an inherited concept, and is honest about being exactly that.