grammatic
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English
Etymology
From Latin grammaticus.[1] Compare Old English grammatiċ. Piecewise doublet of grammar and its many doublets.
Adjective
grammatic (comparative more grammatic, superlative most grammatic)
References
- ^ “grammatic, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Old English
Etymology
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
Adjective
grammatiċ
- grammatical, of grammar
Declension
Declension of grammatiċ — Strong
Declension of grammatiċ — Weak
Related terms
- grammatisċ (“grammatical”)
- grammatiċere (“grammarian”)
- grammatiċcræft (“grammar”)
- grammatisċcræft (“grammar”)
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “grammatiċ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.