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gram⋅mat⋅i⋅cal

[gruh-mat-i-kuhl]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to grammar: grammatical analysis.
2. conforming to standard usage: grammatical speech.

Origin:
1520–30; < L grammatic(us) (< Gk grammatikós knowing one's letters, equiv. to grammat-, s. of grámma letter + -ikos -ic ) + -al 1


gram⋅mat⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
gram·mat·i·cal   (grə-māt'ĭ-kəl)   
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to grammar.
  2. Conforming to the rules of grammar: a grammatical sentence.

[Late Latin grammaticālis, from Latin grammaticus, from Greek grammatikos, of letters; see grammar.]
gram·mat'i·cal'i·ty (-kāl'ĭ-tē) n., gram·mat'i·cal·ly adv.

Grammatical

Gram*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from ? a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See Grammar.]

1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.

2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. --Gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Gram*mat"ic*al*ness, n.
Language Translation for : grammatical
Spanish: gramatical,
German: grammatikalisch,
Japanese: 文法にかなった
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