Where does “grammatical” come from?
Grammatical comes from Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticalis, derived from Latin -alis added to Ancient Greek γραμματική, relating to γράμμα (letter or written character), from γράφω (to write), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ger-.
grammatical (English): Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or...
Definitions
- Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or...
Ancestry of “grammatical”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | grammatical | — |
| 2 | Latin | grammaticalis | grammatical; of or pertaining to grammar |
| 3 | Latin | grammatica | grammar, philology; ablative singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | grammaticus | of or pertaining to the study of language, of... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γραμματικός | knowing one’s letters, of a good scholar;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | γράμμα | that which is written, that which is drawn,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |
Words derived from “grammatical”
- grammatically
- ungrammatical
- grammaticality
- ungrammaticality
- ungrammatically
- lexicogrammatical
- grammaticalness
- nongrammatical
- agrammatical
- lexicogrammatically
- antigrammatical
- metagrammatical
- nongrammatically
- paragrammatical
- neogrammatical
- antegrammatical
- cryptogrammatical
- extragrammatical
- gramrel
- hypergrammatical
- subgrammatical
- chronogrammatically
- metagrammatically
- paragrammatically