-graphy

See also: graphy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-

Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō

Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-ā́

Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)

Ancient Greek -η (-ē)

Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)

Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.

French -graphieder.

English -graphy

From French -graphie, inherited from Latin -graphia, borrowed from Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”). By surface analysis, -graph +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-ɡɹəfi/, with the preceding syllable receiving primary stress
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(South Asia) IPA^(key): /-ˈɡrafi/, [ɡræ(ː)fi ~ ɡræ(ː)phi]

Suffix

-graphy (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -graphies)

Something written or otherwise represented in the specified manner, or about a specified subject.
Field of study.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -graphy

cholangiopancreatography

electroencephalography

hysterosalpingography

Related terms

Translations

Suffix denoting a written or represented in the specified manner, or about a specified subject

Afrikaans: -grafie
Albanian: -grafi f
Aragonese: -grafía f
Armenian: -գրաֆիա (-grafia)
Asturian: -grafía f
Azerbaijani: -qrafiya
Bashkir: -графия (-grafiya)
Basque: -grafia inan
Belarusian: -гра́фія f (-hráfija)
Bulgarian: -гра́фия f (-gráfija)
Catalan: -grafia (ca) f
Corsican: -grafia f
Czech: -grafie f
Danish: -grafi c or n
Dutch: -grafie (nl) f
Esperanto: -grafio
Estonian: -graafia (et)
Finnish: -grafia
French: graphie (fr) f
Friulian: -grafie f
Galician: -grafía (gl) f
Georgian: -გრაფია (-grapia)
German: -graphie (de) f
Greek: -γραφία (el) f (-grafía)
Haitian Creole: -grafi
Hebrew: ־גרפיה f (gráfya)
Hungarian: -gráfia
Ido: -grafio
Indonesian: -grafi
Interlingua: -graphia
Irish: -grafaíocht f
Italian: -grafia (it) f
Javanese: -ꦮꦶꦩ꧀ꦧ (-wimba)
Kazakh: -графия (-grafıya)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: -grafî f, grafya f
Kyrgyz: -графия (-grafiya)
Latin: -graphia f, *-scrībia f
Latvian: -grāfija f
Ligurian: -grafia f
Lithuanian: -grafija f
Luxembourgish: -graphie f
Macedonian: -графија f (-grafija)
Malay: -grafi (ms)
Maltese: -grafija f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -grafi m

Nynorsk: -grafi m
Occitan: -grafia f
Polish: -grafia (pl) f
Portuguese: -grafia (pt) f
Romanian: -grafie f
Cyrillic: -графие f (-grafie)
Russian: -графия f (-grafija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: -гра̀фија f

Latin: -gràfija f, -pis
Sicilian: -grafìa f
Slovak: -grafia f
Slovene: -grafija f
Spanish: -grafía (es) f
Swedish: -grafi (sv) c
Tagalog: -grapiya
Tajik: -графия (-grafiya)
Turkish: -grafi
Turkmen: -grafiýa
Ukrainian: -гра́фія f (-hráfija)
Uzbek: -grafiya
Yiddish: ־גראַפֿיע f (-grafye)