kaligrāfs

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Latvian

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Etymology

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Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek καλλιγράφος (kalligráphos, calligrapher), from κάλλος (kállos, beauty) and γράφω (gráphō, to draw), made into a first-declension masculine noun (ending -s).

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Noun

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kaligrāfs m (1st declension, feminine form: kaligrāfe)

  1. (male) calligrapher (a man who practices calligraphy)
    jau desmit gadus Aleksandrs glīti kā kaligrāfs astoņas stundas dienā rakstīja.. rēķinu grāmatās piecu, sešu un septiņu ciparu skaitļusfor ten years already Aleksandrs had been writing five-, six- and seven-digit numbers in the account books, as neatly as a calligrapher (would)

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