Associations to the word «Programma»

Wiktionary

PROGRAMMA, noun. (obsolete) (historical) (Ancient Greece) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection before being proposed to the general assembly of the people.
PROGRAMMA, noun. (obsolete) An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.
PROGRAMMA, noun. (obsolete) A preface.

Dictionary definition

PROGRAMMA, noun. An edict that has been publicly posted.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats