-ographercomb. form
Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g.
propheciographer n..
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: geographer n.
Etymology: < -ographer (in geographer n., etc.); compare -o- connective, -grapher comb. form, and -ography comb. form.Found from the late 16th cent. onwards, at first mainly in formations on Latin words, e.g. commentariographer n. The earliest formation on an English word is probably elegiographer n. (17th cent.). Most examples are rare or specialist words; the major exception is the 19th-cent. formation cartographer n., with a French or Latin first element. Few formations date from the 20th cent.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2020).