"-gram" meaning in English

See -gram in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

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”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gerbʰ-}}, {{der|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{m|grc|-γραμμα}} -γραμμα (-gramma), {{m|grc|γράμμα||written character, letter, that which is drawn}} γράμμα (grámma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”), {{m|grc|γράφω||to scratch, to scrape, to graze}} γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”) Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -gram, {{en-suffix}} -gram
  1. Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -gramme Synonyms (that written, drawn): -graph Related terms: Instagram, 'Gram Translations (something written): -grama [masculine] (Catalan), -gram [neuter] (Danish), -grammi (Finnish), -gramme (French), -grama [masculine] (Galician), -gramm (German), -gram (Hungarian), -gram [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), -gram [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), -gram [masculine] (Polish), -grama (Portuguese), -grama [masculine] (Spanish), -gram [neuter] (Swedish), -graf (Turkish), -grama (Venetian)
    Sense id: en--gram-en-suffix-vxA8F~4O Derived forms: cisternogram, correlogram, cosmogram, engram, histogram, interferogram, logogram, meteogram (english: a time cross-section producing and using data for a specific weather station on the ground), monogram, n-gram (english: a type of probabilistic model for predicting the next item in a sequence), nastygram, Ntigram, photogram, pictogram, radargram, reflectogram, renogram, scintigram, sonogram, spectrogram, stereogram, trigram, zymogram, Lexical, alphagram, ambigram, anagram, ideogram, semantogram, pangram, Types of message, candygram, datagram, strippergram, telegram, Types of geometric figures, decagram, enneagram, hendecagram (english: a star polygon that has eleven points), heptagram, hexagram, octagram, parallelogram, pentagram

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