The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαράγραφος
- Latin · derived fromparagraphus“sign for start of a new section of discourse”
- Middle French · derived fromparagraphe
- Middle English · inherited fromparagraf
- English todayparagraph
From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπαράγραφος all →
paragraphosparaphpilcrow
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.