graphium

Latin graphium (“stylus”)

graphium (plural graphia)

1. A stylus (for writing).

From the genus name.

graphium (plural graphiums)

1. A butterfly of the genus Graphium.
   • 1993, John Feltwell, The Encyclopedia of Butterflies, page 41:

     Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers.

From Ancient Greek γραφεῖον (grapheîon), from γράφω (gráphō).

graphium n (genitive graphiī or graphī); second declension

1. stylus (for writing)
2. pen

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “graphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “graphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• graphium 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)
• graphium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “graphium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “graphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin