-ographycomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. museography n..

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: geography n.

Etymology: < -ography (in geography n., etc.); compare -o- connective, -graphy comb. form, and -ographer comb. form.Found from the 17th cent. onwards, at first in formations on Greek and Latin first elements, e.g. heresiography n., and occasionally with early by-forms in -ographia ; such formations have continued to be quite frequent. The 18th cent. formation planetography n. is the earliest based on an arguably English first element, followed by uglyography n. (early 19th cent.). Formations are frequent in the 19th cent., including such important items as cartography n. and oceanography n. The element continued to be productive in the 20th cent., notably in the specific sense of a descriptive catalogue, as in discography n., filmography n.

Forming nouns denoting processes or styles of writing, drawing, or graphic representation, or (more commonly) names of descriptive sciences or similar disciplines; = -graphy comb. form.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	-ography
释义	-ographycomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. museography n.. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: geography n. Etymology: < -ography (in geography n., etc.); compare -o- connective, -graphy comb. form, and -ographer comb. form.Found from the 17th cent. onwards, at first in formations on Greek and Latin first elements, e.g. heresiography n., and occasionally with early by-forms in -ographia ; such formations have continued to be quite frequent. The 18th cent. formation planetography n. is the earliest based on an arguably English first element, followed by uglyography n. (early 19th cent.). Formations are frequent in the 19th cent., including such important items as cartography n. and oceanography n. The element continued to be productive in the 20th cent., notably in the specific sense of a descriptive catalogue, as in discography n., filmography n. Forming nouns denoting processes or styles of writing, drawing, or graphic representation, or (more commonly) names of descriptive sciences or similar disciplines; = -graphy comb. form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < comb. form
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