English
electrophotography
From electro- + photography.
A compound of electro- + photography
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω ‘to scratch, cut into’
French photographie ‘photography’
English photography
Today it means
noun any of several methods of photocopying in which an image is created and then transferred between surfaces using static electricity
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / electrophotography