-graphus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos), from γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to paint; to write; to describe”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming compound adjectives (often nominalizable)).
Originally found in borrowings from Ancient Greek, such as autographus (adjective) from αὐτόγραφος (autógraphos, adjective), or geōgraphus (noun) from γεωγράφος (geōgráphos, noun).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡra.pʰʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡra.fus] (stressed on antepenult)
Suffix
-graphus (feminine -grapha, neuter -graphum); first/second-declension adjective
- -graphous
- auto- + -graphus → autographus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -graphus | -grapha | -graphum | -graphī | -graphae | -grapha | |
| genitive | -graphī | -graphae | -graphī | -graphōrum | -graphārum | -graphōrum | |
| dative | -graphō | -graphae | -graphō | -graphīs | |||
| accusative | -graphum | -grapham | -graphum | -graphōs | -graphās | -grapha | |
| ablative | -graphō | -graphā | -graphō | -graphīs | |||
| vocative | -graphe | -grapha | -graphum | -graphī | -graphae | -grapha | |
Derived terms
- holographus
- idiographus
- opisthographus
- orthographus
- pseudographus
Descendants
Suffix
-graphus m (genitive -graphī); second declension
- -grapher
- geō- + -graphus → geōgraphus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -graphus | -graphī |
| genitive | -graphī | -graphōrum |
| dative | -graphō | -graphīs |
| accusative | -graphum | -graphōs |
| ablative | -graphō | -graphīs |
| vocative | -graphe | -graphī |
Derived terms
- antigraphus
- artigraphus
- chirographus
- comoediographus
- encomiographus
- hypomnematographus
- logographus
- mimographus
- orthographus
- psalmographus
- rhyparographus
- sillographus
- technographus
- tragoediographus
Descendants
Related terms
- -graphia
- paragraphus (-i, f.)
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerbʰ-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
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