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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Koine Greek γραμματεία (grammateía), with semantic loan from French littérature in the 'literature' sense.[1] By surface analysis, γραμματ(έας) (grammat(éas)) +‎ -εία (-eía).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɣɾa.maˈti.a/
  • Hyphenation: γραμ‧μα‧τεί‧α

Noun

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γραμματεία (grammateíaf (plural γραμματείες)

  1. secretariat
  2. literature (the body of all written works in a given historical period)
    Near-synonym: λογοτεχνία f (logotechnía)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ γραμματεία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language