ARABIC ETYMOLOGY////// إتيمولوجيا// HISTORY///MYTHOLOGY///LANGUAGES OF THE PAST///SCRIPTS OF THE PAST/// COSTAS LEVENTOPOULOS
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Geographer=العالم بالجغرافيا
Geographer=العالم بالجغرافيا
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ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
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geographer (n.)
1540s, from Medieval Latin geographus (see geography) + agent noun ending -er (1).
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geography (n.)
1540s, from Middle French géographie (15c.), from Latin geographia, from Greek geographia "description of the earth's surface," from geo- "earth" + -graphia "description" (see -graphy).
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geo-
word-forming element meaning "earth," ultimately from Greek geo-, comb. form of ge "earth" (see Gaia).
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-graphy
word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or "a writing, recording, or description," from French or German -graphie, from Greek -graphia "description of," from graphein "write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn," originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). In modern use, especially in forming names of descriptive sciences.
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