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typist (n.)
1843, "compositor," from type (n.) + -ist. Meaning "person who operates a typewriter" is from 1884.
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typo (n.)
1816, "compositor," short for typographer; 1892 as short for typographical error.
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typographer (n.)
"printer," 1640s, from typography + -er (1).
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typographic (adj.)
1778, "of or pertaining to the art of printing from types," from Medieval Latin typographicus (16c.), from typographus, from Greek typos (see type (n.)) + graphos "writing," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
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typographical (adj.)
"pertaining to typography," 1590s, from typography + -ical. Related: Typographically.
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typography (n.)
"art of composing types and printing from them," 1640s, from French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia, from Greek typos (see type (n.)) + -grapheia "writing," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
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typology (n.)
"doctrine of symbols," 1845, from Greek typos (see type (n.)) + -logy. Related: Typological; typologically.
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tyrannical (adj.)
1530s, from Latin tyrannicus "arbitrary, despotic," from Greek tyrannikos "befitting a despot," from tyrannos (see tyrant) + -al (1). Tyrannic was used in this sense from late 15c. Related: Tyrannically.
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tyrannize (v.)
"rule despotically or cruelly; rule tyrannically," late 15c., from Middle French tyranniser (14c.), from tyrannie (see tyranny). Greek tyrannizein meant "to take the part of tyrants" in politics. Related: Tyrannized; tyrannizing.
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tyrannosaurus (n.)
carnivorous Cretaceous bipedal dinosaur, 1905, Modern Latin genus name, coined by H.F. Osborn (published 1906 in "Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" XXI, p.259) from Greek tyrannos "tyrant" (see tyrant) + -saurus. Abbreviated name T. rex attested by 1970 (apparently first as the band name).
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