-gram
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Something written or drawn; a record:
书写或图;记录:
cardiogram.
心电图
语源
- Greek -gramma
希腊语 -gramma - from gramma [letter] * see gerbh-
源自 gramma [字母] *参见 gerbh-
-gram
combining form in countable noun
indicating a drawing or something written or recorded
⇒
hexagram
⇒
telegram
Origin
from Latin -gramma, from Greek, from gramma letter and grammē line-gram1
Word Origin
1
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “something written,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram).
Compare -graph.
Origin
< Greek -gramma, combining form of grámma something written or drawn; akin to carve
-gram2
1
a combining form of gram1 :
kilogram.
-gram3
1
a combining form extracted from telegram, used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “message, bulletin”:
culturegram; electiongram; prophecy-gram.
Related Words
- pangram
- accelerogram
- actinogram
- aerogram
- aérogramme
- anagram
-gramI.
1. a word element meaning 'something drawn or written', as in diagram, epigram, telegram, monogram.
2. a word element indicating a telegram, usually designed to embarrass the recipient by being presented in public by a specified type of person, as a pregnant person, fat person, etc., or a person dressed in a particular way, as a gorilla, clown, etc., or performing in a specified way, as stripping, singing, kissing, etc., as strip-a-gram, fat-a-gram.
[Greek -gramma something drawn or written, or -grammon relating to a stroke or line]II.
a word element meaning 'grams', 'of or relating to a gram', as in kilogram.
[Greek gramma small weight]-gram
noun combining form
chronogram
telegram
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY Latin -gramma, from Greek, from gramma
: drawing : writing : recordchronogram
telegram
-gram2
combining form
- in nouns denoting a person paid to deliver a novelty greeting or message as a humorous surprise for the recipient[用于名词] 表示“受雇以新颖方式送去问候和信息, 以给收受者带来惊喜的人”:
-
kissogram.
词源
on the pattern of telegram.
-gram1
combining form
- in nouns denoting something written or recorded (especially in a certain way)[用于名词] 表示(尤指以一定方式)“写的东西”, “记录的东西”:
-
cryptogram
heliogram.
派生词
-grammatic combining form
in corresponding adjectives
[用于相应的形容词] 。
词源
from Greek gramma 'thing written, letter of the alphabet', from graphein 'write'.
1979 Maclean's Mag. 19 Nov. 17/1For singing-telegram junkies bored by the same old song and dance, Cookie climbs into a furry suit to deliver Gorillagrams.
1980 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 June tm104Gorillagram. Eliot Corey Stein... Filed 12-11-78.
1981 N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 5/5Mary Flatt..said its services include..the ‘Bellygram’, which is sung by a singer in a belly-dancing attire.
1982 Private Eye 16 July 22/4 ( Advt. ),Singing telegrams, Gorillagrams,..Strip-a-Grams..for..anniversaries etc.
1983 ‘K. Bryson’ et al.Compl. Naff Guide 46Send a girlfriend a male singing strippergram on her birthday.
1985 Time 24 June 72/3 Youngsters will soon be able to pop Rambo vitamins, and New Yorkers can send a Rambogram, in which a Stallone look-alike will deliver a birthday message or carry out a tough assignment.
-gram
noun suffix, "that which is written or marked, from Greek gramma "picture, written letter, piece of writing," from stem of graphein "to draw or write" (see -graphy. In some words directly from Greek use of the word in compounds, in others a modern formation. Alternative -gramme is a French form. From telegram (1850s) the element was abstracted by 1979 (in Gorillagram, a proprietary name in U.S.), and put to wide use in forming new words, such as stripagram (1981). The construction violates Greek grammar, as an adverb could not properly form part of a compound noun.
ORIGIN: Repr. Greek gramma , -atos thing written, letter of the alphabet, from graphein write.
☞ gram
-gram
\ˌgram, -aa(ə)m; in “program” and in the southern US in “telegram” the preceding or _grəm\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: Latin -gramma, from Greek, from gramma letter, piece of writing
: drawing : writing : record
< chronogram >
< telegram >
< thermogram >
< spectrogram >
< chronogram >
< telegram >
< thermogram >
< spectrogram >
-gram
Suffix
- Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek suffix -γραμμα (-gramma), from γράμμα (grámma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”)
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -gram
- Lexical
- Types of message
- Types of geometric figures