graphium

English

Etymology

Latin graphium (“stylus”)

Noun

graphium (plural graphia)

1. A stylus (for writing).

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γραφεῖον (grapheîon), from γράφω (gráphō).

Noun

graphium n (genitive graphiī or graphī); second declension

1. stylus (for writing)
2. pen

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	graphium	graphia
Genitive	graphiī graphī1	graphiōrum
Dative	graphiō	graphiīs
Accusative	graphium	graphia
Ablative	graphiō	graphiīs
Vocative	graphium	graphia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: graft
• French: greffe
• Indonesian: garpu

• Malay: garpu
• Portuguese: garfo
• Spanish: garfio

References

• “graphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “graphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• graphium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• graphium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “graphium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “graphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin