-gram
a combining form occurring in loanwords from greek, where it meant “something written,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram).
-gram2
a combining form of gram1 :
kilogram.
-gram3
a combining form extracted from telegram, used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “message, bulletin”:
culturegram; electiongram; prophecy-gram.
-gram
combining form
indicating a drawing or something written or recorded hexagram, telegram
word origin
-gram
suffix from telegram (1857), first abstracted 1979 (in gorillagram, a proprietary name in u.s.), and put to wide use in forming new words, such as stripagram (1981). the construction violates gk. grammar, as an adv. could not properly form part of a compound noun.
-gram suff.
something written or drawn; a record: cardiogram.
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