-graph
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Something written or drawn:
 写下或画下的某种东西:
 monograph.
 专著
- An instrument for writing, drawing, or recording:
 用于书写,绘图或记录的设备:
 seismograph.
 地震仪
语源
- French -graphe 
 法语 -graphe
- from Late Latin -graphus 
 源自 后期拉丁语 -graphus
- from Greek -graphos 
 源自 希腊语 -graphos
- from graphein [to write] * see  gerbh- 
 源自 graphein [写] *参见 gerbh-
-graph
combining form in countable noun
an instrument that writes or records
⇒ 
telegraph
a writing, record, or drawing
⇒ 
autograph
⇒ 
lithograph
Derived Forms
-graphic, -graphical combining form in adjective-graphically combining form in adverb
Origin
via Latin from Greek -graphos, from graphein to write-graph
Word Origin
1 
a combining form meaning “drawn,” “written” (lithograph; monograph); specialized in meaning to indicate the instrument rather than the written product of the instrument (telegraph; phonograph).
Origin
< Greek -graphos (something) drawn or written, one who draws or writes. See grapho-
Related Words
- -gram
- -graphic
- accelerograph
- actinograph
- aerograph
- allograph
-grapha word element meaning:
1.  drawn or written, as in autograph.
2.  something drawn or written, as in lithograph, monograph.
3.  an apparatus for drawing, writing, recording, etc., as in barograph.
[Greek -graphos (something) drawn or written, also one who draws or writes. See graphic]-graph
noun combining form
monograph
2. [French -graphe, from Late Latin -graphus] : instrument for making or transmitting records or images
chronograph
noun combining form
 ETYMOLOGY  Latin -graphum, from Greek -graphon, from neuter of -graphos written, from graphein to write — more at carve
1. something written or drawnmonograph
2. [French -graphe, from Late Latin -graphus] : instrument for making or transmitting records or images
chronograph
-graph
                combining form
               1.     
         -          in nouns denoting something written or drawn in a specified way[用于名词] 表示“以某方式写(或画)的东西”:
-       autograph. 
         2.     
         -          in nouns denoting an instrument that records[用于名词] 表示“记录的工具”:
-       seismograph. 
词源
from French -graphe, based on Greek graphos 'written, writing'.
-graph
modern word-forming element meaning "instrument for recording; that which marks or describes; something written," from Greek -graphos "-writing, -writer" (as in autographos "written with one's own hand"), from graphe "writing, the art of writing, a writing," from graphein "to write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn" (see -graphy). Adopted widely (Dutch -graaf, German -graph, French -graphe, Spanish -grafo). Related: -grapher; -graphic; -graphical.
ORIGIN: from or after French  -graphe  from Latin  -graphus  from Greek  -graphos  written, writing.
☞ graph
-graph
\ˌgraf, -aa(ə)f, -aif, -ȧf\  noun combining form 
(-s) 
Etymology: Middle French -graphe, from Latin -graphum, from Greek -graphon, from neuter of -graphos written, writing (from graphein to write) — more at carve 
1. : something written 
< cryptograph >
< holograph >
2. : instrument for making or transmitting records 
< chronograph >
< phonograph >
< telegraph >
1.
< cryptograph >
< holograph >
2.
< chronograph >
< phonograph >
< telegraph >
-graph
Suffix
- that writes - stenograph
 
- metonymically that is written
- by analogy that draws or shows
- metonymically that is drawn or shown - photograph
 
- A group of letters of a specified number.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek suffix -γραφω (-graphō), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”), whence also -graphy.
Derived terms
 English words suffixed with -graph