-graph

From Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos, “that writes, describes”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”), whence also -graphy.

-graph (noun-forming suffix, plural -graphs)

1. that writes

   stenograph

2. (metonymic) that is written
3. (by analogy) that draws or shows
4. (metonymic) that is drawn or shown

   photograph

5. A group of letters of a specified number.

• (that written): -gram
• (that drawn or show): -gram

• digraph
• trigraph
• tetragraph
• pentagraph
• monograph
• photograph
• paragraph

• -graphy

• phrag

• -graf

Originally in borrowings from Latin terms ending in -graphus such as Geograph from geōgraphus. Ultimately from Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos, “that writes, describes”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”).

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-graph m (weak, genitive -graphen, plural -graphen)

1. -graph; -grapher

• -graphie

• “-graph”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)