Art & MusicGreek → English
Grammar
The rules governing a language's structure.
The Greek roots
γράμμα
grámma
letter, something written
Literally: “the art of letters”
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The story of the word
Grammatikḗ téchnē was 'the art of letters'. The same grámma writes itself into diagram, telegram, and program.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
A single comma changed the sentence's grammar.