-graphy

"graphy" redirects here. Not to be confused with Graph (disambiguation).

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 – the art and field of making maps.
• Choreography – the art of creating and arranging dances or ballets.
• Cinematography – the 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 – the art of interpreting the content by icons.
• Klecksography – the art of making images from inkblots.
• Lexicography – the study lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries.
• Lithography – planographic printing technique.
• Photography – the art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
• Photolithography – the method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing.
• Pornography – the practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words.
• Pyrography – the 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 – 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.
• Xerography – the means of copying documents.

Writing

• Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling.
• Calligraphy – the art of fine handwriting.
• Ideography – the use of symbols to represent a concept or idea.
• Orthography – the rules of correct writing.
• Palaeography – the study of historical handwriting.
• Pictography – the use of pictographs.
• Steganography – the art of writing hidden messages.
• Stenography – the art of writing in shorthand.

Types of works

See also: Bibliography § Non-book_material

• Bibliography – a list of writings, typically those used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work or research.
  • Metabibliography – bibliography of bibliographies.
• Biography – an account of a person's life.
  • Autobiography – biography of a person written by themselves.
• Discography – a list of recorded music, or other sound recordings/auditory media.
• Filmography – a list of films, documentaries, or other visual media.
• Ludography (or gameography) – a list of games, specifically video games.
• Webography (or webliography or arachniography) – a list of websites, or URLs.

Fields of study

• Areography – the geography of Mars (studies the physical features of the planet).
• Cartography – the study and making of maps.
• Cosmography – the study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos.
• Cryptography – the study of securing information.
• Crystallography – the study of crystals.
• Demography – the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
• Encephalography – recording of voltages from the brain.
• Epigraphy – the study of written inscriptions on hard surfaces.
• Ethnography – the study of cultures and cultural phenomena.
• Floriography – the language of flowers.
• Geography – study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth.
  • Anthropogeography – study of human society's interactions and relationships with the environment.
  • Orography – the study of mountains.
  • Physiography – study of the processes and patterns in the Earth's environment.
• Hagiography – the study of saints.
• Historiography – study of the methods of historians
• Holography – study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations.
• Hydrography – measurement and description of any waters.
• Monography – the study of a single specialized subject of the aspect of a subject.
• Oceanography – exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena.
• Orography – science and study of mountains.
• Pathography – study of the history of an individual or community with regard to the influence of a physical or mental condition.
• Radiography – use of X-rays to produce medical images.
• Reprography – reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means.
• Selenography – the study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon.
• Topography – the study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids.
• Uranography – the study and mapping of stars and space objects.
• Zoography – the study of animal description and their habits; descriptive zoology.

Medical

• Mammography – an x-ray method used to examine the breast for detection of early-stage cancer and other diseases.
• Venography – a test that uses a x-ray moving pictures of blood in the veins of the legs and pelvis.
• Ultrasonography – a test that uses energy sound waves to observe tissues and organs.
• Urography – an examination with an x-ray to evaluate the kidneys, ureters and bladder.

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.