Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of typewriter for the blind, pricking characters into paper by means of needles. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ῥαφίς
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromῥαφίς“needle”
  2. English todayraphigraph

From Ancient Greek ῥαφίς (rhaphís, “needle”) + -graph.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekῥαφίς all →

raphidesphaeraphis

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.