-graphy

See also: graphy

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-ɡɹəfi/, with the preceding syllable receiving primary stress
• (India, spelling pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-ɡræfi/, with the preceding syllable receiving secondary stress

Suffix

-graphy

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

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -graphy

Related terms

• -graph
• -graphic
• -graphical

 

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
• 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 (-grafiä)
• 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

  Roman: -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)

Further reading

• -graphy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia