pragma

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpɹæɡmə/ === Noun === pragma (plural pragmas or pragmata) (programming) A compiler directive; data embedded in source code by programmers to indicate some intention to a compiler. Synonym: (in ALGOL) pragmat (Internet) In early versions of HTTP, a general header that specifies some implementation-specific directive, to any recipient, and may specify that the HTTP response should not be cached. (uncommon) A practical thing or action, as opposed to theory or belief (dogma). === Anagrams === grampa == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρᾶγμᾰ (prâgmă). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpraːɡ.ma] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpraɡ.ma] === Noun === prāgma n (genitive prāgmatis); third declension (Late Latin) a matter, affair, business Synonym: (Classical) rēs f ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Related terms ==== prāgmaticus prāgmatismus === Further reading === “pragma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “pragma”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[3], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “pragma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1233/2. prāgma in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1905 "1. PRAGMA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) "2. PRAGMA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Spanish == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === pragma m (plural pragmas) pragma (clarification of this definition is needed)