-graphy
English language suffix
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The English suffix -graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.
Arts
- Cartography – art and field of making maps
- Choreography – art of creating and arranging dances or ballets
- Cinematography – art of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema.
- Collagraphy - In printmaking, a fine art technique in which collage materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate.
- Iconography – art of interpreting the content by icons
- Klecksography – art of making images from inkblots
- Lithography – planographic printing technique
- Photography – art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs
- Photolithography – method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing
- Pornography – practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words
- Pyrography – art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks
- Serigraphy – printmaking technique that uses a stencil made of fine synthetic material through which ink is forced
- Tasseography – art of reading tea leaves
- Thermography – thermal imaging
- Tomography – three-dimensional imaging
- Typography – art and techniques of type design
- Videography – art and techniques of filming video
- Vitreography – in printmaking, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices
- Xerography – means of copying documents
Writing
- Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling
- Calligraphy – art of fine handwriting
- Orthography – rules of correct writing
- Palaeography – study of historical handwriting
- Pictography – use of pictographs
- Steganography – art of writing hidden messages
- Stenography – art of writing in shorthand
Types of works
- Bibliography – list of writings, typically those used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work or research
- Metabibliography – bibliography of bibliographies
- Biography – account of a person's life
- Autobiography – biography of a person written by themselves
- Discography – list of recorded music, or other sound recordings/auditory media
- Filmography – list of films, documentaries, or other visual media
- Ludography (or gameography) – list of games, specifically video games
- Webography (or webliography or arachniography) – list of websites, or URLs
Fields of study
- Areography – geography of Mars (studies the physical features of the planet)
- Cartography – study and making of maps
- Cosmography – study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos
- Cryptography – study of securing information
- Crystallography – study of crystals
- Demography – study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics
- Encephalography – recording of voltages from the brain
- Ethnography – study of cultures
- Floriography – language of flowers
- Geography – study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth.
- Physiography – study of the processes and patterns in the Earth's environment.
- Anthropogeography – study of human society's interactions and relationships with the environment.
- Hagiography – study of saints
- Historiography – study of the methods of historians
- Holography – study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations.
- Hydrography – measurement and description of any waters
- Oceanography – exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena
- Orography – science and study of mountains
- Radiography – use of X-rays to produce medical images
- Reprography – reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means
- Selenography – study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon
- Topography – study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids
- Uranography – study and mapping of stars and space objects
See also
References
- Black, Richard Harrison (1874). The student's manual complete; an etymological vocabulary of words derived from the Greek and Latin. Oxford University. pp. 10–12. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
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- The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
