typo-
1
a combining form representing type, in compound words:
typography, typology.
Compare -type.
Related Words
- -type
- typology
1881 F. J. Bell in Proc. Zool. Soc. 3 May 502When the spines retain the simpler disposition..seen in..most of the better known forms, we may speak of the arrangement as being *typacanthid.
1835 Southey Doctor cii. (1848) 233/2Old Mr. Strahan the printer (the founder of his *typarchical dynasty).
1858 Bailey Age 15The *Typo⁓crat now rules from coast to coast.
1854 E. Michelsen England 186The English Constitution..is *typocratic, and written every day.
1888 J. Southward in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 704/1In..*typo-etching, the drawing is made with ordinary lithographic ink on stone, or on paper and transferred to stone. It is then re-transferred to a plate of polished zinc by the ordinary lithographic process.
1885 Academy 20 June 445/2 A new process—‘*typogravure’.
1890 Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 535The Typogravure process is a method of obtaining half-tone pictures from copper relief plates.
1828 Webster, *Typolite, in natural history, a stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals. Cyc.
1860 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Typolithus,..a typolith.
1825 Hone Every-dayBk. I. 1038A new musical work *typolithographied.
1882 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly LI. 66The slender intellectual endowments..which are so very frequently observed in association with *typomania.
1890 P. H. Hunter After Exile ii. iii. 57The Jewish-Christian, misled by the prevailing typomania of his age.
1884 Coues in Auk Oct. 321*Typonym, a name based upon indication of a type species, or of a type specimen.
1889 Pall Mall G. 16 Feb. 1/2 Two publications which will receive and deserve the attention of all *typophils.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Jan. 12/3It is only sad that the Typophile Chap Books are not more widely available.
1975 Dalhousie Rev. Summer 206Berenson..was the recognized leader of an energetic group which included..Bertram Goodhue, architect, book-designer and typophile.
1982 Amer. N. & Q. Jan./Feb. 89/2It is good reading, at least for typophiles.
1899 Sci. Amer. 28 Jan. 51/1Dr. Kolle now declares..that the process of *typo-radiography is..a self-evident and systematic method of procedure.
a1891 First Year Silken Reign 214 ( Cent. )The *typorama, a plaster of Paris model of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight.
1893 N. H. Dole in Nation (N.Y. ) 13 July 27/2For upwards of ten years..I have..spoken and written of work thus composed as *typoscript.
1910 Times 26 Sept. 8/1, 40,000 articles..in the form of corrected typoscripts.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 120/1The automatic *typo-telegraph of Bonelli.
1903 Electr. World &Engin. 3 Oct. 377 (Cent. D. Supp.)*Typo⁓telegraphy.
1888 Pall Mall G. 10 Sept. 11/1 The *typo⁓theter is a machine used for..setting type,..and requires no change in the type, material, or appliances now in use.
ORIGIN: from Greek tupos type noun + -o- .
typo-
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— see typ-