graphic
English
/ˈɡɹæfɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Drawn, pictorial.
- Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
Etymology
Derived from Latin graphicus (belonging to painting drawing, painting drawing) derived from Ancient Greek γραφικός (lively, picturesque, of for writing, belonging to painting drawing, of style, painting drawing) root from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (scratch, carve).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gerbʰ-
Gloss
scratch, carve
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -gram English
- -graph English
- aerophotograph English
- audiographic English
- becarve English
- carvable English
- carve English
- carveable English
- carven English
- carveout English
- carver English
- carvery English
- cographic English
- design English
- ecographically English
- electrographic English
- electrographically English
- epileptographic English
- fluorographically English
- forcarve English
- grammatical English
- graph English
- graphic design English
- graphical English
- graphicality English
- graphically English
- graphicalness English
- graphician English
- graphicly English
- graphicness English
- hypergraphical English
- infographic English
- melographic English
- neurographical English
- neurographically English
- nongraphic English
- nongraphical English
- overcarve English
- perigraphic English
- photograph English
- pseudographical English
- recarve English
- semigraphical English
- supergraphic English
- visuographic English
- grammaticālis Latin
- graphicus Latin
- graphisch German
- grafiek Dutch, Flemish
- γράμμα Ancient Greek
- γράφω Ancient Greek
- γραμμή Ancient Greek
- γραμματική Ancient Greek
- γραμματικός Ancient Greek
- γραφή Ancient Greek
- γραφικός Ancient Greek
- γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός Ancient Greek
- *gerbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gr̥bʰtós Proto-Indo-European
- grafisk Norwegian Bokmål
- gráfico Portuguese
- *kerban- Proto-Germanic
- *kerbaną Proto-Germanic
- *krabitaz Proto-Germanic
- *kurbiz Proto-Germanic
- grafik Swedish
- グラフィック Japanese
- グラフィックデザイン Japanese
- grafisk Norwegian Nynorsk
- kerven Middle English
- athghrafaic Irish
- grafaic Irish
- γραμμικός Old Norse
- *žerbьjь Proto-Slavic
- grafický Czech
- gramairien Old French
- γραφικός Greek (modern)
- 그래픽 Korean
- *grəpʰō Proto-Hellenic
- -gram
- graph
- carve
- -graph
- design
- carven
- carver
- recarve
- becarve
- carvery
- carvable
- forcarve
- carveout
- overcarve
- graphical
- graphicly
- carveable
- cographic
- graphician
- photograph
- nongraphic
- graphically
- graphicness
- perigraphic
- melographic
- grammatical
- infographic
- visuographic
- supergraphic
- audiographic
- graphicality
- nongraphical
- graphicalness
- semigraphical
- electrographic
- ecographically
- hypergraphical
- graphic design
- neurographical
- aerophotograph
- epileptographic
- pseudographical
- neurographically
- fluorographically
- electrographically