pragmatics (study of the use of the language in a social context) · a law emanating from a competent Spanish authority, but technically differing from a royal decree or command in the formalities of its publication
köken: Borrowed from French pragmatique, from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma), in plural πράγματα (prágmata), from πράσσειν (prássein).