grammático

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grammaticus. First attested near the end of the Old Spanish period, in the late 15th century. The term may have been rather novel at the time; Nebrija offers a more native equivalent in one of the quotations below. Non-synchronous doublet of gramatgo, attested once in the 12th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈmatiko/

Noun

grammático m (plural grammáticos)

1. grammarian
   • 1490, Alfonso de Palencia, Universal vocabulario en latín y en romance , (ed. by Gracia Lozano López, 1992):

     Enesto hay dos maneras de verbo los grammaticos dizen verbos que tienen tres tiempos conuiene saber. passado presente & venidero. los rethoricos dizen verbos por todas las palabras: o dictiones dela oraçion: proprio del verbo significar açtion o passion: o ambas cosas con tiempos & formas sin caso.

     Now there are two definitions of verbo. It should be understood that grammarians say verbs have three tenses: past, present and future. Rhetoricians call all types of words verbos, or dictiones of speech. [Among grammarians] it is a property of a verbo to indicate an action one does or undergoes, or both things, in tenses and without cases.

   • 1492, Antonio de Nebrija, Gramática castellana , (ed. by John O'Neill, 1995):

     Los casos del nombre son cinco. el primero por el cual las cosas se nombran o hazen & padecen: el cual los latinos llaman nominativo. El segundo por el cual dezimos cuia es alguna cosa. el cual los grammaticos llaman genitivo.

     There are five cases in a noun. The first one is used to name things as they do or undergo an action, which in Latin is known as "nominative". We use the second one to say something belongs to it, which grammarians call the "genitive".

   • 1492, Antonio de Nebrija, Gramática castellana , (ed. by John O'Neill, 1995):

     [L]os que boluieron de griego en latin este nombre gramatica: llamaron la arte de letras: & a los professores & maestros della dixeron grammaticos: que en nuestra lengua podemos dezir letrados.

     Those who brought grammar from Greek into Latin called the art of letters gramatica, and its scholars and teachers grammaticos, which in our language we could translate as [literally] "the lettered".

Descendants

• Spanish: gramático

Spanish

Noun

grammático m (plural grammáticos)

1. Obsolete spelling of gramático.