-graphy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-graphy
▶combining form in nouns denoting.
- 1 a descriptive science: geography.
- 2 a technique of producing images: radiography.
- 3 a style or method of writing or drawing: calligraphy.
- 4 writing about (a specified subject): hagiography.
- 5 a written or printed list: filmography.
– origin from or suggested by Gk -graphia ‘writing’.
'-graphy' also found in these Oxford entries:
cartography
- cholangiography
- choreography
- chromatography
- demography
- filmography
- glyptography
- -grapher
- -graphic
- ichnography
- mammography
- reprography
- scintigraphy
- stenography
- stratigraphy
- tomography
- topography
- typography
