καλλιγραφία

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καλλι- (kalli-, “beautiful”) +‎ -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “writing”) and/or καλλιγράφος (kalligráphos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kal.li.ɡra.pʰí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kal.li.ɡraˈpʰi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kal.li.ɣraˈɸi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kal.li.ɣraˈfi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.li.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱ • (kalligraphíā) f (genitive κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱς); first declension

calligraphy, beautiful writing

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱ; τῆς κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱ hē kalligraphíā
Genitive	τῆς κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱς tês kalligraphíās
Dative	τῇ κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾳ têi kalligraphíāi
Accusative	τὴν κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱν tḕn kalligraphíān
Vocative	κᾰλλῐγρᾰφίᾱ kalligraphíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

καλλιγραφέω (kalligraphéō)
καλλιγραφικός (kalligraphikós)

Descendants

Descendants

Greek: καλλιγραφία (kalligrafía)
→ Asturian: caligrafía
→ Dutch: kalligrafie
→ Finnish: kalligrafia
→ French: calligraphie (see there for further descendants)
→ Friulian: caligrafie
→ German: Kalligraphie, Kalligrafie
- → Hungarian: kalligráfia
→ Latvian: kaligrāfija
→ Norwegian Bokmål: kalligrafi
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kalligrafi
→ Polish: kaligrafia
→ Russian: каллигра́фия (kalligráfija)
→ Serbo-Croatian: krȁsnopis (calque)
→ Slovak: kaligrafia
→ Spanish: caligrafía
→ Ukrainian: калігра́фія (kalihráfija)
→ Ukrainian: красно́пис (krasnópys) (calque)

Further reading

καλλιγραφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“καλλιγραφία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
“καλλιγραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφίᾱ (kalligraphíā).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.li.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

καλλιγραφία • (kalligrafía) f (plural καλλιγραφίες)

calligraphy, beautiful writing

Related terms

καλλιγράφος m or f (kalligráfos, “calligrapher”)
καλλιγραφικός (kalligrafikós, “calligraphic”)

Further reading

καλλιγραφία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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