The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαλλιγραφία
- French · borrowed fromcalligraphie
- English todaycalligraphy
Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, literally “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.