Definitions

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  • A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.

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  • suffix Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek suffix -γραμμα (-gramma), from γράμμα (gramma, "written character, letter, that which is drawn"), from γράφω (graphō, "to scratch, to scrape, to graze")

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