| Flavius Sosipater Charisius |
| Definition:
The 4th-century Latin grammarian who wrote the Ars Grammatica of Charisius (five books, of which about two-fifths was lost). The work, a compilation, is valuable because it contains excepts from the writings of other grammarians, such as Remmius Palaemon, Cominianus, and Julius Romanus. Note: His claim to fame is that he coined Latin term adverbium, that which is added to a verb — from which our term adverb derives — by translating the Greek word epirrhema, adverb. |