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Latvian
Etymology
Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek καλλιγράφος (kalligráphos, “calligrapher”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”), made into a first-declension masculine noun (ending -s).
Pronunciation
Noun
kaligrāfs m (1st declension, feminine form: kaligrāfe)
- (male) calligrapher (a man who practices calligraphy)
- jau desmit gadus Aleksandrs glīti kā kaligrāfs astoņas stundas dienā rakstīja.. rēķinu grāmatās piecu, sešu un septiņu ciparu skaitļus ― for ten years already Aleksandrs had been writing five-, six- and seven-digit numbers in the account books, as neatly as a calligrapher (would)
Declension
Declension of kaligrāfs (1st declension)