英语词汇-gram的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	-gram
词源	-gram noun word-forming element, "that which is written or marked," from Greek gramma "that which is drawn; a picture, a drawing; that which is written, a character, an alphabet letter, written letter, piece of writing;" in plural, "letters," also "papers, documents of any kind," also "learning," from stem of graphein "to draw or write" (see -graphy). Some words with it are from Greek compounds, others are modern formations. Alternative -gramme is a French form. From telegram (1850s) the element was abstracted by 1959 in candygram, a proprietary name in U.S., and thereafter put to wide use as a second element in forming new commercial words, such as Gorillagram (1979), stripagram (1981), and, ultimately, Instagram (2010). The construction violates Greek grammar, as an adverb could not properly form part of a compound noun. An earlier instance was the World War II armed services slang latrinogram "latrine rumor, barracks gossip" (1944). Entries linking to -gram -graphy word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or "a writing, recording, or description" (in modern use especially in forming names of descriptive sciences), from French or German -graphie, from Greek -graphia "description of," used in abstract nouns from graphein "write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn," originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). telegram n. "telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett's 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word). May I suggest to such as are not contented with 'Telegraphic Dispatch' the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.' [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London Times, Oct. 15, 1857] Related: Telegrammic. -graphytelegram (n.)aerogram (n.)anagram (n.)angiogram (n.)cardiogram (n.)dactylogram (n.)electroencephalogram (n.)gram (n.)grammar (n.)grammatist (n.)grammatolatry (n.)-grammegramophone (n.)hexagram (n.)histogram (n.)hologram (n.)ideogram (n.)lipogram (n.)logogram (n.)mammogram (n.)monogram (n.)pentagram (n.)phonogram (n.)pictogram (n.)seismogram (n.)sonogram (n.)spectrogram (n.)tetragrammaton (n.) updated on May 08, 2020
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