The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπρᾶγμα“a thing done, a fact”
- English todaypragma
From Ancient Greek πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”). In the technical senses perhaps a back-formation from pragmatic or a clipping of pragmat used earlier in ALGOL.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπρᾶγμα all →
pragmatist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.