greffe
French
noun
Definitions
- (legal) court clerk's office, court registrar's office
- (obsolete) court clerk, court registrar
Etymology
Inherited from Old French groife inherited from Latin graphium (stylus, pen).
Origin
Latin
graphium
Gloss
stylus, pen
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- graphium English
- *graphiāre Latin
- graphium Latin
- sgraffiare Italian
- xénogreffe French
- garfio Spanish, Castilian
- γράφω Ancient Greek
- γραφείον Ancient Greek
- γραφεῖον Ancient Greek
- garfo Portuguese
- grefe Old French
- greffe Old French
- groife Old French
- garfio Old Portuguese
- krāpho lng