γραμματική

See also: γραμματικῇ

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 27 April 2016

Etymology

As an animate noun, a feminisation of γραμματικός (grammatikós, “teacher of the rudiments, grammarian”) and as an inanimate noun, an ellipsis of γραμματικὴ τέχνη (grammatikḕ tékhnē, “grammatical art, grammar”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡram.ma.ti.kɛ̌ː/ → /ɣram.ma.tiˈci/ → /ɣra.ma.tiˈci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡram.ma.ti.kɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡram.ma.tiˈke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɣram.ma.tiˈci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣram.ma.tiˈci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣra.ma.tiˈci/

Noun

γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή • (grammatikḗ) f (genitive γρᾰμμᾰτῐκῆς); first declension

1. animate senses:
   1. a female teacher of the rudiments
   2. a woman who occupies herself with literary texts, a female grammarian or critic
2. inanimate senses:
   1. grammar
   2. the faculty of scholarship
   3. alphabet, script, writing

Declension

First declension of ἡ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή; τῆς γρᾰμμᾰτῐκῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή hē grammatikḗ	τὼ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκᾱ́ tṑ grammatikā́	αἱ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκαί hai grammatikaí
Genitive	τῆς γρᾰμμᾰτῐκῆς tês grammatikês	τοῖν γρᾰμμᾰτῐκαῖν toîn grammatikaîn	τῶν γρᾰμμᾰτῐκῶν tôn grammatikôn
Dative	τῇ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκῇ têi grammatikêi	τοῖν γρᾰμμᾰτῐκαῖν toîn grammatikaîn	ταῖς γρᾰμμᾰτῐκαῖς taîs grammatikaîs
Accusative	τὴν γρᾰμμᾰτῐκήν tḕn grammatikḗn	τὼ γρᾰμμᾰτῐκᾱ́ tṑ grammatikā́	τᾱ̀ς γρᾰμμᾰτῐκᾱ́ς tā̀s grammatikā́s
Vocative	γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή grammatikḗ	γρᾰμμᾰτῐκᾱ́ grammatikā́	γρᾰμμᾰτῐκαί grammatikaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: γραμματική (grammatikí)

References

• “γραμμᾰτικός II, III”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Adjective

γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή • (grammatikḗ)

1. nominative singular feminine of γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός (grammatikós)
2. vocative singular feminine of γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός (grammatikós)

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γρᾰμμᾰτῐκή (grammatikḗ, “grammar”).

Noun

γραμματική • (grammatikí) f (uncountable)

1. grammar

Declension

  γραμματική

case     \     number	singular
nominative	γραμματική •
genitive	γραμματικής •
accusative	γραμματική •
vocative	γραμματική •

Adjective

γραμματική • (grammatikí)

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative feminine singular form of γραμματικός (grammatikós).

Further reading

• γραμματική on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el