grapho-

1. a combining form meaning “writing,” used in the formation of compound words:

   graphomotor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grapho-¹

< Greek, combining form of graphḗ; akin to carve

Example Sentences

Wikipedia breaks down the roots using a Greek-English dictionary: Start with λέξις, or lexis, meaning speech or word, and move on to λεξικός or lexikos, “of or for words” and add in γράφω, or grapho, “to scratch, to inscribe, to write.”

From Slate

A slaty compact limestone, of a yellowish color and fine grain, used in lithography, which is the art of drawing upon and printing from stone Etym., λιθος, lithos, stone, and γραφο, grapho, to write.

From Project Gutenberg

Children, you ought to know That Grapho can but mean To picture out, or tell about, Some object or some thing.

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It takes its name from two Greek words, sphugmos, the pulse, and grapho, I describe.

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Of other moving pictures machines we have had the vitascope, vitagraph, magniscope, mutoscope, panoramagraph, theatograph and scores of others all derived from the two Greek roots grapho I write and scopeo I view.

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