Meanings
plural apographs
- human sciencesA copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
Moreover, this is not a holograph but an apograph, made by a scribe for the printers – you will note that both mayors write the same hand.
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire1 more example
For both C and R, as well as for all other corpora of Slavic manuscripts, including I and L, it has always been tacitly assumed that the scribe did not merely copy, but verified the text of his apograph via his own pronunciation (externally or internally), or even wrote upon dictation.
1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀπόγραφον
- Englishapograph
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόγραφον (apógraphon), from ἀπογράφω (apográphō, “I copy”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
More words from Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan apògraf
- apògrafperfect copy
Finnish jäljennös
- jäljennösperfect copy
German Abschrift, Kopie
- Abschriftperfect copy
- Kopieperfect copy
- Apographperfect copy
- Apografperfect copy
- Nachschriftperfect copy
Icelandic fornbréfauppskrift
- fornbréfauppskriftperfect copy
Italian apografo
- apografoperfect copy
Portuguese apógrafo
- apógrafoperfect copy
Russian апо́граф
- апо́граф (apógraf)perfect copy
Spanish apógrafo
- apógrafoperfect copy
Cite this entry
apograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apograph
“apograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apograph. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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