kaligrāfs

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek καλλιγράφος (kalligráphos, “calligrapher”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”), made into a first-declension masculine noun (ending -s).

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kaligrāfs m (1st declension, feminine form: kaligrāfe)

1. (male) calligrapher (a man who practices calligraphy)

   jau desmit gadus Aleksandrs glīti kā kaligrāfs astoņas stundas dienā rakstīja.. rēķinu grāmatās piecu, sešu un septiņu ciparu skaitļus ― for ten years already Aleksandrs had been writing five-, six- and seven-digit numbers in the account books, as neatly as a calligrapher (would)

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