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-graphy is an English suffix. Words that include the suffix usually are about a work, an art, or a field of study.

[edit] Etymology of -graphy

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

[edit] Arts

Cartography - the art and field of map making
Choreography - the art of creating and arranging dances or ballets
Collagraphy - In printmaking, a fine art technique in which collage materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate.
Cryptography - the art of disguising information
Lithography - a planographic printing technique.
Photolithography - a method for micro fabrication in electronics manufacturing.
Pornography - the practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words.
Photography - the art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
Serigraphy - a printmaking technique that uses a stencil made of fine synthetic material through which ink is forced.
Tasseography - the art of reading tea leaves
Thermography - thermal imaging.
Tomography - three dimensional imaging
Typography - the art and techniques of type design
Videography - the art and techniques of filming video.
Vitreography - In printmaking, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices.
Webography - a bibliography published on the Internet, or a similar listing of websites
Xerography - a means of copying documents.

[edit] Writing

Cacography, bad handwriting or spelling
Calligraphy - the art of fine handwriting
Orthography - rules of correct writing
Pictography - the use of pictographs
Steganography - the art of writing hidden messages
Stenography - the art of writing in shorthand

[edit] Types of works

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

[edit] Fields of study

Cartography - the study and making of maps
Crystallography - the study of crystals
Demography - the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics
Encephalography - the recording of voltages from the brain
Floriography - the language of flowers
Geography - the study of spatial relationships on the Earth's surface
Hagiography - the study of saints
Holography - the study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations.
Historiography - the study of the study of history
Hydrography - the measurement and description of any waters
Oceanography - the exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena
Orography - the science and study of mountains
Reprography - the reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means
Selenography - the study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon
Uranography - the study and mapping of stars and space objects

[edit] See also

[edit] 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=AnACAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22-graphy%22&pg=PA10. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-graphy.html. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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