Letters of the alphabet or written characters, especially when considered as components of language.
From Greek 'grammates,' derived from 'gramma' (letter, written mark), used in ancient texts to refer specifically to written letters or characters as building blocks of words.
This is an incredibly rare word that shows how ancient Greeks had different words for 'letters'—'grammates' refers to them as written things, while other Greek words focused on their sound, revealing how they thought about language!
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