chirography

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχειρόγραφος
2. Latin · derived fromchirographus
3. French · derived fromchirographe
4. English todaychirography

From chirograph + -y under influence from geography &c., from French chirographe, from Latin chirographus and chirographum, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos) and χειρόγραφον (kheirógraphon), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + γραφος (graphos, “writing, written thing”). Equivalent to chiro- (“hand”) + -graphy (“writing”) and handwriting.

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