autograph
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/
autograph (plural autographs)
- A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
- Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.
- (by extension, colloquial) A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval.
- If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…
- A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
- (person’s own handwriting) penmanship, handwriting, chirography
- (personal signature) signature, inscription (inexact)
- (manuscript in author’s hand) protograph, holograph, archetype, original
- French: signature, autographe
- German: Autogramm, Unterschrift
- Italian: autografo
- Portuguese: autógrafo
- Russian: авто́граф
- Spanish: firma, autógrafo
- French: autographe
- German: eigenhändige Niederschrift des Verfassers, Autograph
- Italian: manoscritto, autografia
autograph (not comparable)
- Written in the author’s own handwriting.
- (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.
- 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:
- French: autographe
- Italian: autografo
autograph (autographs, present participle autographing; simple past and past participle autographed)
- (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
- (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting
- French: dédicacer, signer
- Italian: autografare
- Spanish: autografiar
- Spanish: autografiar, manuscribir
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