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- Ancient Greek · borrowed from-γραφία
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδῆμος“people”
- English todaydemography
From demo- (“people”) + -graphy (“written representation of”) (From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) and Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”)).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδῆμος all →
demosdemondemedemocidedemarchdemonymdemophiledemospongedemoticslaocracy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.