kaligrāfs
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek καλλιγράφος (kalligráphos, “calligrapher”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”), made into a first-declension masculine noun (ending -s).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]kaligrāfs m (1st declension, feminine form: kaligrāfe)
- (male) calligrapher (a man who practices calligraphy)
- jau desmit gadus Aleksandrs glīti kā kaligrāfs astoņas stundas dienā rakstīja.. rēķinu grāmatās piecu, sešu un septiņu ciparu skaitļus ― for ten years already Aleksandrs had been writing five-, six- and seven-digit numbers in the account books, as neatly as a calligrapher (would)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kaligrāfs | kaligrāfi |
| genitive | kaligrāfa | kaligrāfu |
| dative | kaligrāfam | kaligrāfiem |
| accusative | kaligrāfu | kaligrāfus |
| instrumental | kaligrāfu | kaligrāfiem |
| locative | kaligrāfā | kaligrāfos |
| vocative | kaligrāf | kaligrāfi |