autograph

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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

• French: signature, autographe
• German: Autogramm, Unterschrift
• Italian: autografo
• Portuguese: autógrafo
• Russian: авто́граф
• Spanish: firma, autógrafo

Translations

• French: autographe
• German: eigenhändige Niederschrift des Verfassers, Autograph
• Italian: manoscritto

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.

Translations

• French: autographe
• Italian: autografo

Verb

autograph (autographs, present participle autographing; 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

• French: dédicacer, signer
• Italian: autografare
• Spanish: autografiar

Translations

• Spanish: autografiar, manuscribir

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