Talk:grimoire

Etymology

 * The following etymology has been moved here from the entry page as it is unreferenced.

Mostly thought to come from the word  which is also the origin of the word. Another source could be the Italian word ("book of rhymes") which eventually adopted a hard "g" as it moved to France. Either way, the word melded with the French word grimaire an old spelling of the word, Génin, as well as Littré, suggest "grammar" in the meaning of "study of Latin" and "profound and occult science".