типокграфїꙗ

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• тѵпогра́фіа (tipohráfja)

Etymology

Borrowed from some European language, ultimately from Medieval Latin typographia, from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos) + -ίᾱ (-íā). Later reinforced by Russian типогра́фія (tipográfija), attested since 1709. First attested in the 1633 and 1646.

Noun

типокграфїꙗ • (tipografija) f inan

1. printing house, printshop
   • 1646, Номоканꙍ́нъ, си́ є҅стъ законопра́вилникъ. [Nomokanón, sí je҅st zakonoprávilnik., Nomocanon, i.e. book of regulations.]‎^[1], Lvov, page 1:

     Въ Лвовѣ, в҆́ Тѵпоґра́фїи Міхаи́ла Слі҅о́ски

     V Lvově, v҆́ Tipográfii Mixaíla Sli҅óski

     In Lvov, in the Printing House of Mikhail Slioski

Descendants

• Belarusian: тыпагра́фія (typahráfija)
• Carpathian Rusyn: тіпоґра́фія (tipográfija)
• Ukrainian: типогра́фія (typohráfija)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2013), “типография”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 33 (струна – треснутися), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 305