grimoire

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪmwɑː/
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• General-American: grĭmʹwärʹ
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• General-American: /ˈɡɹɪmˌwɑːɹ/
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Borrowed from French grimoire, a variant of grammaire, from Old French gramaire (“grammar; grimoire; conjurer, magician”), from Latin grammatica (“grammar; philology”), from grammaticus (“relating to grammar, grammatical”), from Ancient Greek γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός (grămmătĭkós, “knowing one's letters; concerned with textual criticism”), from γράμμα (grámma, “that which is drawn or written; letter; book, writing”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix added to noun stems to form adjectives). γράμμα is derived from γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to cut into, scratch; to draw, paint; to write”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerbh- (“to carve”)) + -μᾰ (-mă, suffix added to verbal stems forming neuter nouns denoting the result of, a particular instance of, or the object of an action). The English word is a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grammar.

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гримоа́р (grimoár) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Catalan: grimori — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Chinese Mandarin: 魔法书 (mófǎshū) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Chinese Mandarin: 魔法書 /魔法书 (mófǎshū) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Czech: grimoár — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Dutch: toverboek — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Estonian: loitsuraamat — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Finnish: loitsukirja — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Finnish: taikakirja — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• French: grimoire — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Old French: gramaire — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• German: Grimoire — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• German: Zauberbuch — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Greek: γριμόριο (grimório) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Ido: magiolibro — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Indonesian: primbon — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Old Irish: grammatach — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Italian: grimorio — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Japanese: 魔導書 (madōsho) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Japanese: グリモワール (gurimowāru) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Lithuanian: grimuaras — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Polish: grymuar — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Portuguese: grimório — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Romanian: grimoar — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Russian: гримуа́р (grimuár) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Russian: колдовска́я кни́га (koldovskája kníga) — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Slovene: knjiga urokov — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Spanish: grimorio — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Swedish: svartkonstbok — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Swedish: trollbok — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic
• Swedish: trolldomsbok — book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic