English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English gramarien, from Middle French gramarien, gramairien.
Pronunciation
- enPR: grə-mârʹē-ən, IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/
Noun
grammarian (plural grammarians)
- A person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
- Synonyms: grammatician, grammaticist
- Hypernym: person
- Hyponyms: morphologist, syntactician, syntacticist
Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
- (loosely) A person who pedantically critiques the grammar of others' speech or writing, especially when unscientifically and misguidedly.
- Hyponyms: grammar Nazi, grammar cop, grammar police, grammando
They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
Derived terms
Translations
person who studies grammar
- Arabic: نَحْوِيّ (ar) (naḥwiyy)
- Armenian: քերականագետ (hy) (kʻerakanaget), քերական (hy) (kʻerakan)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 語法學家 / 语法学家 (zh) (yǔfǎ xuéjiā)
- Czech: gramatik m
- Danish: grammatiker c
- Dutch: grammaticus (nl) m
- Esperanto: gramatikisto
- Finnish: kieliopin tutkija
- French: grammairien (fr) m, grammairienne (fr) f
- Galician: gramático (gl) m, gramática (gl) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Grammatiker (de) m
- Middle High German: grâmaticus m, gramatici m (plural)
- Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)
- Ancient: γραμματικός m (grammatikós)
- Hindi: शाब्दिक (hi) m (śābdik), वैयाकरणिक m (vaiyākarṇik)
- Italian: grammatico (it) m
- Japanese: 文法家 (bunpōka), 文法学者 (bunpōgakusha)
- Korean: 문법가 (munbeopga)
- Latin: grammaticus m
- Latvian: gramatiķis m, gramatiķe f
- Lithuanian: gramatikas m, gramatikė f
- Low German:
- German Low German: grammatikers (plural)
- Macedonian: граматичар m (gramatičar)
- Manx: grammeydeyr m
- Maori: mātanga wetewete reo
- Middle English: gramarien
- Old English: stæfcræftiga m
- Persian: نحوی (fa) (nahvi)
- Polish: gramatyk (pl) m
- Portuguese: gramático (pt) m
- Russian: граммати́ст (ru) m (grammatíst), граммати́стка f (grammatístka), грамма́тик (ru) m (grammátik)
- Sanskrit: वैयाकरण (sa) m (vaiyākaraṇa), शाब्दिक (sa) m (śābdika), शाब्द (sa) m (śābda)
- Slovak: gramatik m
- Spanish: gramático m
- Swahili: mwanasarufi
- Swedish: grammatiker (sv) c
- Tagalog: mambabalarila
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Urdu: قواعدداں m (qavāyaddā̃)
- Vietnamese: nhà ngữ pháp học
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