mégalographe
French
Etymology
From mégalographie + -graphe. The original megalograph was invented by Georges Révoil and manufactured by the French scientific company, Secretan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mə.ɡa.lɔ.ɡʁaf/
- Rhymes: -af
- Hyphenation: mé‧ga‧lo‧gra‧phe
Noun
mégalographe m (plural mégalographes)
- megalograph
- One who produces works of megalography; one who produces grand or large works, one who produces depictions of important or grand subjects
Derived terms
- English: megalograph
References
- “New York Academy of Sciences”, in Scientific American[1], volume 35, number 22, 25 November 1876, →ISSN, pages 345–345
- Pierre Larousse; Claude Augé (1898), Nouveau Larousse illustré: Dictionnaire Universel Encyclopédique[2] (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 1031
Further reading
- “mégalographe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012