chirographum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʰiːˈro.ɡra.pʰum/, [kʰiːˈrɔɡräpʰʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kiˈro.ɡra.fum/, [kiˈrɔːɡräfum]

Noun

chīrographum n (genitive chīrographī); second declension

1. one's handwriting; autograph
2. manuscript

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	chīrographum	chīrographa
genitive	chīrographī	chīrographōrum
dative	chīrographō	chīrographīs
accusative	chīrographum	chīrographa
ablative	chīrographō	chīrographīs
vocative	chīrographum	chīrographa

Descendants

• Old French: cyrografe
  • Middle French: chirographe
    • French: chirographe
    • → English: chirograph, chirography
• → Old English: cyrographum
• Italian: chirografo
• → German: Chirograph
• → Polish: cyrograf

References

• “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