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Grammatist

//ˈɡɹæmətɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece. historical

    "1907 (Mar.), L. F. Anderson, "A Study of the Prototypes of the Modern Non-professional School among the Greeksand the Romans", The Pedagogical Seminary, 14(1): 1-38. The grammatist, apparently, taught literature in so far as it was read while the citharist taught the poetry which was usually sung."

  2. 2
    A grammarian.

Etymology

From French grammatiste, from the Medieval Latin grammatista, from the Ancient Greek γραμματιστής (grammatistḗs), from γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

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