ტიპოგრაფია • (tipograp'ia)=typography =τυπογραφία
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
typography (n.) Look up typography at Dictionary.com
1640s, from French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia,
from Greek typos (see type (n.)) + -grapheia "writing," from graphein
"to write" (see -graphy).
type (n.) Look up type at Dictionary.com
late 15c., "symbol, emblem," from Latin typus "figure,
image, form, kind," from Greek typos "dent, impression, mark, figure,
original form," from root of typtein "to strike, beat," from PIE root
*(s)teu- "to strike, cut, hew" (see steep (adj.)). Extended 1713 to
printing blocks with letters carved on them. The meaning "general form
or character of some kind, class" is first in English 1843, though it
had that sense in Latin and Greek. To be someone's type "be the sort of
person that person is attracted to" is recorded from 1934.
-graphy Look up -graphy at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "process of writing or recording" or
"a writing, recording, or description," from French or German -graphie,
from Greek -graphia "description of," from graphein "write, express by
written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn,"
originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from
PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). In modern use,
especially in forming names of descriptive sciences.
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