English
grammando
Blend of gram(mar) + (com)mando; possibly coined by, and probably first popularized by, Lizzie Skurnick in 2012, via her feature “That Should Be a Word” in The New York Times Magazine.
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve, scratch’
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Latin grammatica
Vulgar Latin *grammāria
Old French gramaire ‘classical learning’
Middle English gramere
English grammar
Proto-Italic *manus ‘hand’
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Latin commendō ‘to commend, entrust to, commit’
Late Latin *commandare
Portuguese comando ‘command’
Afrikaans kommando
English commando
The story
Blend of gram(mar) + (com)mando; possibly coined by, and probably first popularized by, Lizzie Skurnick in 2012, via her feature “That Should Be a Word” in The New York Times Magazine.
Today it means
noun Synonym of grammar cop.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / grammando