-grama

See also: grama

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.mə]

• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.ma]

Suffix

-grama m (noun-forming suffix, plural -grames)

1. -gram (forms the names of documents with recorded information)

Derived terms

Catalan terms suffixed with -grama

criptograma

pictograma

radiograma

sumerigrama

Related terms

• -graf

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• -gramma (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ.ma/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐmɐ, -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: -gra‧ma

Suffix

-grama m (noun-forming suffix, plural -gramas)

1. -gram (forms the names of documents with recorded information)

Derived terms

Portuguese terms suffixed with -grama

ambigrama

antibiograma

aortograma

artrograma

cardiograma

coagulograma

criptograma

cronograma

encefalograma

hemograma

organograma

radiograma

sumerograma

Further reading

• “-grama”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “-grama”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -γραμμα (-gramma), from γράμμα (grámma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”).

Suffix

-grama m (noun-forming suffix, plural -gramas)

1. -gram

Derived terms

Spanish terms suffixed with -grama

aerograma

ambigrama

angiograma

cardiograma

cariograma

cladograma

cronograma

crucigrama

dendrograma

ecocardiograma

encefalograma

fonograma

hemograma

holograma

ideograma

pictograma

proteinograma

radiograma

sumerograma

telegrama

Further reading

• “-grama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025