English
graphology
Graphology comes from French graphologie.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgraphologie
- Englishearliest quotation 1930graphology
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentgraphologie
- Englishearliest quotation 1930graphology
Earliest quotation: 1930, Frances E. O'Brien, Individualism in Child Art: “Talented" children fall into one of two classes: those…”
Equivalent to grapho- + -logy
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω ‘to scratch, cut into’
English grapho-
The story
From French graphologie, coined by Jean-Hippolyte Michon from Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”) + French -logie (‘study of’).
Every English word from French graphologie
Today it means
noun The study of handwriting, especially as a means of analyzing a person's character.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French graphologie / graphology