chirographum
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʰiːˈro.ɡra.pʰum/, [kʰiːˈrɔɡräpʰʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kiˈro.ɡra.fum/, [kiˈrɔːɡräfum]
Noun[edit]
chīrographum n (genitive chīrographī); second declension
- one's handwriting; autograph
- manuscript
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | chīrographum | chīrographa |
| Genitive | chīrographī | chīrographōrum |
| Dative | chīrographō | chīrographīs |
| Accusative | chīrographum | chīrographa |
| Ablative | chīrographō | chīrographīs |
| Vocative | chīrographum | chīrographa |
Descendants[edit]
- Old French: cyrografe
- Middle French: chirographe
- French: chirographe
- → English: chirograph, chirography
- Middle French: chirographe
- → Old English: cyrographum
- Italian: chirografo
- → German: Chirograph
- → Polish: cyrograf
References[edit]
- “chirographum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “chirographum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chirographum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- chirographum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “chirographum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “chirographum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin