grammateus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-

Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō

Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)

Pre-Greekder.?

Proto-Hellenic *-eús

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús)bor.

Latin grammateus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús).

Noun

grammateus m (genitive grammateī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) scribe, secretary

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	grammateus	grammateī
genitive	grammateī	grammateōrum
dative	grammateō	grammateīs
accusative	grammateum	grammateōs
ablative	grammateō	grammateīs
vocative	grammatee	grammateī

Quotations

• [1745] 25 April[is]: / Apoplexia tactus per signa confessus extrema unctione unctus pie in Domino obiit honestus ac ducatus vir Bernardus Arnold Obrist pater gramathei [sic] Oltensis pro tempore.

References

• “grammateus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grammateus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “grammateus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grammateus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016