"-graphia" meaning in Latin

See -graphia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: [ɡra.pʰi.a] [Classical-Latin], [ɡra.fi.a] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ɡra.pʰi.aː] [Classical-Latin], [ɡra.fi.a] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From borrowings from Greek like chronographia, cosmographia, geōgraphia, orthographia, topographia; from Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φειν (grắphein, “write”). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:bor|grc:-γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "drawing", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to scratch", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to scratch", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to carve", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*gerbʰ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*grə́pʰō", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "γρᾰ́φω", "lang" : "grc" }, { "id" : "zero-grade", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal noun suffix", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ᾱ", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-η", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "γραφή", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-graphia", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="-graphia">, {{m+|grc|γράφω|γρᾰ́φειν|t=write}} Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φειν (grắphein, “write”) Head templates: {{la-suffix-noun|-graphia<1>}} -graphia f (genitive -graphiae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|-graphia<1>}} Forms: -graphiae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], -graphia [nominative, singular], -graphiae [nominative, plural], -graphiae [genitive, singular], -graphiārum [genitive, plural], -graphiae [dative, singular], -graphiīs [dative, plural], -graphiam [accusative, singular], -graphiās [accusative, plural], -graphiā [ablative, singular], -graphiīs [ablative, plural], -graphia [singular, vocative], -graphiae [plural, vocative]
  1. -graphy Tags: declension-1, feminine, morpheme Derived forms: angiographia, photographia, urographia

Inflected forms

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