The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχειρόγραφος“written with the hand”
- Middle French · derived fromchirographe
- English todaychirograph
From Middle French chirographe, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos, “written with the hand”) χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχειρόγραφος all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.