grammatic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin grammaticus.[1] Compare Old English grammatiċ. Piecewise doublet of grammar and its many doublets.
Adjective
[edit]grammatic (comparative more grammatic, superlative most grammatic)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “grammatic, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Like Old High German gramatich, from Latin grammaticus, from Ancient Greek γραμματικός (grammatikós, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Compare English grammatic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]grammatiċ
- grammatical, of grammar
Declension
[edit]Declension of grammatiċ — Strong
Declension of grammatiċ — Weak
Related terms
[edit]- grammatisċ (“grammatical”)
- grammatiċere (“grammarian”)
- grammatiċcræft (“grammar”)
- grammatisċcræft (“grammar”)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “grammatiċ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerbʰ-
- Old English terms derived from Latin
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- Old English lemmas
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