English
marograph
Marograph comes from Latin mare ‘sea’, and perhaps goes back to Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mer-1‘sea, lake, wetland’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móri2‘sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mari2‘sea’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmare3‘sea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1875marograph3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *móri
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin mare
- 3 Wiktionary, English marograph
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1875, Scientific American: “We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mer-Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *móri‘sea, lake, wetland’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móriWiktionary, Latin mare‘sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mariWiktionary, Latin mare‘sea’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmareWiktionary, English marograph‘sea’
- Englishearliest quotation 1875marographWiktionary, English marograph. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1875, Scientific American: “We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we…”
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.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “marograph”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Indo-European *móri, Latin mare. 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 / Proto-Indo-European *mer- / marograph