Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γραμματικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραμματικός γραμματική γραμματικόν

Structure: γραμματικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gra/mmata

Sense

  1. knowing one’s letters, of a good scholar
  2. (in the phrase γραμματικὸν ἔκπωμα) a cup engraved with the alphabet or an inscription
  3. concerned with textual criticism
  4. (in the phrase γραμματικὴ τέχνη) the grammatical art or craft [sc. grammar]

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἦπου τὸ ἔμψυχον καὶ αὐτοκίνητον ὁρμῆσ τε καὶ λόγου μετέχον ἄλλωσ ἄν τισ ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ προϋπάρχουσαν ἕξιν ἢ δύναμιν ἢ φύσιν μεταχειρίσαιτο, μουσικῶσ κινῶν νοῦν ἄμουσον ἢ γραμματικῶσ τὸν ἀγράμματον ἢ λογίωσ τὸν ἐν λόγοισ ἀθεώρητον καὶ ἀνάσκητον; (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 2113)
  • τότε οὖν ἔσται γραμματικόσ, ἐὰν καὶ γραμματικόν τι ποιήσῃ καὶ γραμματικῶσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 37:2)
  • ὁ δέ γε ἴσωσ οἰοίτ’ ἂν ἡμᾶσ, ὥσπερ ἂν τὸ σὸν ὄνομα ἐρωτηθέντασ καὶ ἀποκρινομένουσ κατὰ συλλαβήν, γελοίουσ εἶναι, ὀρθῶσ μὲν δοξάζοντασ καὶ λέγοντασ ἃ λέγομεν, οἰομένουσ δὲ γραμματικοὺσ εἶναι καὶ ἔχειν τε καὶ λέγειν γραμματικῶσ τὸν τοῦ Θεαιτήτου ὀνόματοσ λόγον· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 393:5)

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