"-graph" meaning in English

See -graph in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: From Ancient Greek suffix -γράφος (-gráphos, “that writes, describes”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”), whence also -graphy. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gerbʰ-}}, {{der|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -graph, {{en-suffix}} -graph
  1. that writes Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--graph-en-suffix-7ILcZbkD
  2. (metonymically) that is written Tags: metonymically, morpheme Synonyms (that written): -gram
    Sense id: en--graph-en-suffix-qtveUW0Q Categories (other): English metonyms Disambiguation of 'that written': 18 64 6 7 5
  3. (by analogy) that draws or shows Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--graph-en-suffix-EpJvahtU
  4. (metonymically) that is drawn or shown Tags: metonymically, morpheme Synonyms (that drawn or show): -gram
    Sense id: en--graph-en-suffix-b5zG22Yy Categories (other): English metonyms, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages using catfix, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 6 6 76 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 11 13 53 7 Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 15 10 11 58 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 8 10 64 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 5 7 74 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 9 8 7 72 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 16 11 12 54 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 13 8 10 63 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 14 12 11 56 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 5 4 4 84 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 15 13 12 51 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 11 10 9 64 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 8 10 63 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 13 9 10 63 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 13 11 10 59 7 Disambiguation of 'that drawn or show': 4 5 31 58 2
  5. A group of letters of a specified number. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--graph-en-suffix-RHCaYvHf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: digraph, trigraph, tetragraph, pentagraph, monograph, photograph, paragraph Related terms: -graphy Translations (something related to writing etc.): -graf [masculine] (Catalan), -graf [masculine] (Czech), -graf [common-gender] (Danish), -grafi (Finnish), -graphe (French), -graph (German), -gráf (Hungarian), -graf (Indonesian), -graphus (Latin), -graf (Malay), -graf [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), -graf [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), -graf [masculine] (Polish), -grafo [masculine] (Portuguese), -граф (-graf) [masculine] (Russian), -grafo (Spanish), -граф (-hraf) [masculine] (Ukrainian), -ґраф (-graf) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'something related to writing etc.': 23 27 18 20 13
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        "(metonymically) that is drawn or shown"
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          "_dis1": "4 5 31 58 2",
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          "word": "-gram"
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      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-grafi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graphe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graph"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-gráf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graphus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "-grafo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-graf",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-граф"
    },
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      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-grafo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "-hraf",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "-граф"
    },
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      "_dis1": "23 27 18 20 13",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "-graf",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "-ґраф"
    }
  ],
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}
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      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
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    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graphe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graph"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-gráf"
    },
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graphus"
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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-graf"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-graf"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-grafo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-graf",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
      "word": "-grafo"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
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      ],
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "-graf",
      "sense": "something related to writing etc.",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.