graphium

See also: Graphium

English

Etymology 1

From Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft.

Noun

graphium (plural graphia)

1. A stylus (for writing).

Etymology 2

From the genus name, from Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft.

Noun

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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

graphium n (genitive graphiī or graphī); second declension

1. stylus (for writing)
2. pen

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	graphium	graphia
genitive	graphiī graphī1	graphiōrum
dative	graphiō	graphiīs
accusative	graphium	graphia
ablative	graphiō	graphiīs
vocative	graphium	graphia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: garfi
• Indonesian: garpu
• Italian: graffio
• Malay: garpu
• Old French: greffe
  • French: greffe
  • → English: graft
• Portuguese: garfo
• Spanish: garfio
• → English: graphium
• → Translingual: Graphium
  • → English: graphium

References

• “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