-graphy

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The English suffix -graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.

Arts

• Cartography – art and field of making maps
• Choreography – art of creating and arranging dances or ballets
• Cinematography – art of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema.
• Collagraphy - In printmaking, a fine art technique in which collage materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate.
• Iconography – art of interpreting the content by icons.
• Klecksography – art of making images from inkblots.
• Lithography – planographic printing technique
• Photography – art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
• Photolithography – method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing.
• Pornography – practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words.
• Pyrography – art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks.
• Serigraphy – printmaking technique that uses a stencil made of fine synthetic material through which ink is forced.
• Tasseography – art of reading tea leaves
• Thermography – thermal imaging.
• Tomography – three-dimensional imaging
• Typography – art and techniques of type design
• Videography – art and techniques of filming video.
• Vitreography – in printmaking, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices.
• Xerography – means of copying documents.

Writing

• Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling
• Calligraphy – art of fine handwriting
• Cryptography – art of writing hidden secrets
• Orthography – rules of correct writing
• Palaeography – study of historical handwriting
• Pictography – use of pictographs
• Steganography – art of writing hidden messages
• Stenography – art of writing in shorthand

Science

• Geography – use of images to depict the Earth and its regions.
• Radiography – use of X-rays to produce medical images

Types of works

• Autobiography – biography of a person written by themselves
• Bibliography – list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work
• Biography – account of a person's life
• Discography – listing of sound recordings
• Filmography – list of movie titles that share a similar characteristic such as the same genre, the same director, the same actor, etc.
• Ludography or gameography – list of games, specifically video games

Fields of study

• Areography – geography of Mars (studies the physical features of the planet)
• Cartography – study and making of maps
• Cosmography – study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos
• Cryptography – study of securing information.
• Crystallography – study of crystals
• Demography – study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics
• Encephalography – recording of voltages from the brain
• Ethnography – study of cultures
• Floriography – language of flowers
• Geography – study of spatial relationships on the Earth's surface
• Hagiography – study of saints
• Historiography – study of the study of history
• Holography – study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations.
• Hydrography – measurement and description of any waters
• Oceanography – exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena
• Orography – science and study of mountains
• Reprography – reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means
• Selenography – study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon
• Topography – study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids
• Uranography – study and mapping of stars and space objects

See also

• -ism
• -ology
• -logy
• List of words ending in ology

References

• Black, Richard Harrison (1874). The student's manual complete; an etymological vocabulary of words derived from the Greek and Latin. Oxford University. pp. 10–12. Retrieved 2009-07-28. -graphy.
• The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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