grammatic
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin grammaticus.[1] Compare Old English grammatiċ. Piecewise doublet of grammar and its many doublets.
Adjective
editgrammatic (comparative more grammatic, superlative most grammatic)
References
edit- ^ “grammatic, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Old English
editEtymology
editLike 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
editAdjective
editgrammatiċ
- grammatical, of grammar
Declension
editDeclension 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 piecewise doublets
- 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
- Old English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English adjectives