English
rephotograph
Rephotograph comes from Ancient Greek γράφω ‘to scratch, cut into’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-1‘to carve’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*grə́pʰō1‘to scratch, cut or carve into’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEγράφω1gráphō‘to scratch, cut into’
- English1500–presentphotograph1
- Englishtodayrephotograph1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English rephotograph
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gerbʰ-Wiktionary, English rephotograph‘to carve’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*grə́pʰōWiktionary, English rephotograph‘to scratch, cut or carve into’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEγράφωWiktionary, English rephotographgráphō‘to scratch, cut into’
- English1500–presentphotographWiktionary, English rephotograph
- EnglishtodayrephotographWiktionary, English rephotograph
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
grammar, crawl, crab, carve, crawfish, astrophotography, 79 more
through Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
photography, graffiti, graft, demography, grimoire, ultrasonography, epigraph, sonography, 73 more
through Ancient Greek γράφω ‘to scratch, cut into’
cinema, graphic, graphite, graphene, epigram, 32 more
through English photograph
Today it means
verb to photograph again
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rephotograph”. 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 *gerbʰ- / rephotograph