different between autograph vs autography

English

Etymology

From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek ?????????? (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- +? -graph.

Noun

autograph (plural autographs)

1. A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
2. A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.

Synonyms

• (person’s own handwriting or signature): signature, inscription
• (manuscript in author’s hand): protograph, holograph, archetype, original

Translations

Adjective

autograph (not comparable)

1. Written in the author’s own handwriting.
2. (art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
   • 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:

     Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.

   • 1992, Malise Forbes Adam & Mary Mauchline, in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (ed.), Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books 1992, p. 116:

     Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.

Translations

Verb

autograph (third-person singular simple present autographs, present participle autographing, simple past and past participle autographed)

1. (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
2. (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting

Translations

English

Etymology

auto- +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

autography (countable and uncountable, plural autographies)

1. Writing in one's own handwriting.
2. A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
3. (countable, rare) An autobiography.

Related terms

• autograph