Paragraph. By syncopation of the letters do ág does and accentuation of the first do to do, the paragraph word derives from paragraph. 1 Is a fragment of a letter, whose initial letter of the first line should be capitalized, and the end is symbolized with point and separate. 2 Sign §, representative of this section of text. The origin of this word is from the Greek preposition «pará»: together with the substantive «graphós», from the verb «gráphein»: write.