gramar

Cebuano

Etymology

From English grammar, from Middle English gramer, gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gra‧mar

Noun

gramar

  1. a system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language
  2. (linguistics) the study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax)
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