English
marograph
Marograph comes from Latin mare ‘sea’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *móri.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móri‘sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mari‘sea’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmare‘sea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1875marograph
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móri‘sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mari‘sea’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmare‘sea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1875marograph
Earliest quotation: 1875, Scientific American: “We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we…”
Formed from -graph
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
remember, murder, mortality, nightmare, mortal, mortar, muller, morbid, mort, morn, mara, moribund, ambrosia, marshy, cormorant, marinara, 58 more
through Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’
march, mere, marsh, moor, 14 more
through Proto-Italic *mari ‘sea’
through Latin mare ‘sea’
Today it means
noun An instrument for measuring the tides.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *móri / marograph