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grammat- — Letter or written mark
grammat- means letter or written mark. Ancient Greek source words and ideas terminology examples: grammar.
Meaning and source words
Meaning: Letter or written mark
- Ancient Greek: γράμμα (gramma)
Examples and word parts
grammar
The patterns and rules by which a language combines words and forms.
Word parts: grammar comes through grammatikē, the art of letters, from gramma (letter).
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Related language & writing terms
- lex- — Word
lexicon
- verb- — Word
verbal
- lingu- — Tongue or language
bilingual
- gloss/o — Tongue or language
glossary
- phon/o — Voice or sound
phonetics
- graph/o — Writing or drawing
biography
- scrib-, script- — Writing
manuscript
Sources and usage
From the Word Radicals ideas terminology collection. Source words and word parts are learning references; modern meanings can differ from their classical sources.