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He named the device a cinématographe, from the Greek terms kínēma, meaning “movement” related to the English word “kinetic” + graphos, as in “writer” and related to the English graphite.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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He named the device a cinématographe, from the Greek terms kínēma, meaning “movement” related to the English word “kinetic” + graphos, as in “writer” and related to the English graphite.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Keep in mind that there is no true pornography out there (porno = prostitues; graphos = writing) The writings of prostitutes
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Less problematic is that group of terms for “statute” which is associated with the stem of a “writing” (to graphos), which appears side by side with rhetra in some inscriptions of the sixth century from Olympia
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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The word, pornography, is drawn from the Greek words porne (female captive, slave or prostitute) and graphos (writing or drawing).
Women's Space 2008
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Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1795
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