The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromαὐτόγραφον“a writing in one’s own hand”
- Latin · derived fromautographum
- English todayautograph
From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.