Etymograph

English

manograph

Manograph comes from Ancient Greek μανός ‘thin, rare’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανός1manós‘thin, rare’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909manograph1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English manograph
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1909, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institutio: “In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμανόςWiktionary, English manographmanós‘thin, rare’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909manographWiktionary, English manograph. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1909, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institutio: “In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the…”

Formed from graph

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘small’

money, music, mind, amount, comment, mental, mouth, mention, mountain, museum, remain, monster, auto, mount, min, monitor, permanent, monetary, demonstration, mentor, monk, mint, monument, dementia, monte, imminent, maya, monastery, amnesty, muse, mosaic, eminent, summon, menace, ming, prominence, mont, muster, monstrous, amnesia, 123 more

Today it means

noun An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “manograph”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek μανός / manograph

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