grammaticus

Borrowed from Latin grammaticus, from Ancient Greek γραμματικός (grammatikós).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɣrɑˈmaː.ti.kʏs/

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• Hyphenation: gram‧ma‧ti‧cus

grammaticus m (plural grammatici, diminutive grammaticusje n)

1. grammarian

• grammatica
• grammaticaal

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γραμματικός (grammatikós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡramˈma.ti.kus/, [ɡrämˈmät̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡramˈma.ti.kus/, [ɡrämˈmäːt̪ikus]

grammaticus (feminine grammatica, neuter grammaticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the study of language, of literature and grammar; linguistic, philological, grammatical

First/second-declension adjective.

• (of grammar): grammaticālis

grammaticus m (genitive grammaticī); second declension

1. an expert on linguistic or literary questions, a scholar, grammarian, philologist
2. a grammar school or secondary school teacher of grammar (originally Latin or Greek)

   Coordinate term: (primary school, elementary school) lūdus litterārius

Second-declension noun.

• Emilian: grammadgh
• Ligurian: gramaigo (obsolete)
• Old French: gramaire, gramare
  • → Old Occitan: gramaire
• Old Occitan: gramadi, gramavi
• Romansch: garmadi
• Old Spanish: gramatgo
• Venetian: gramego (obsolete)
• → Catalan: gramàtic
• → Dutch: grammaticus

• “grammaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grammaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grammaticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• grammaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the rules of speech, grammar: praecepta grammaticorum
    
  • a linguist, philologian: grammaticus (De Or. 1. 3. 10)
    
• “grammaticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grammaticus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “grammaticus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 286
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “grammaticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 216