typo-, typ-, -type

(Greek > Latin: to beat, to strike; a blow; a dent, an impression, a mark, original form; a mold; a figure, an image, a form, a kind)

typescript
A typewritten document or other text.
typical
1. Conforming to a type: "She is the typical, or normal, American."
2. Exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group, kind, or category: "He is the typical British guy."
3. Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing: "That is typical of you!"
4. Etymology: from 1605, "symbolic, emblematic," from Middle Latin typicalis, "symbolic"; from Late Latin typicus "of or pertaining to a type"; from Greek typikos, from typos, "impression".
typically
typification
typify
typify
typing
typo (TIGH poh) (s) (noun), typos (pl)
1. Errors of spelling, grammar, etc. that are made when typing or printing a document: Carol spotted several typos in the page that she was editing.

A typo includes errors resulting from mechanical failures or slips of the hand or finger, but essentially it shouldn't include mistakes made as a result of a lack of knowledge.

Although a typo excludes errors of ignorance, it is common to find it being used as a euphemism to describe instances of poor spelling, punctuation, or grammar.

2. Etymology: an abbreviated term for typographical, from Middle Latin typographia which came from Greek typos, "dent, impression, mark, figure, original form" + -grapheia, "writing".
typocosm
typocosmy
typogram
A record from a machine that sets type or casts lines of type and sets them.
typograph
A machine for setting type, or for casting lines of type, and setting them.
typographer
1. Someone who processes printing; especially, the setting and arrangement of types and printing of documents, etc.
2. Anyone who arranges and produces the appearance of printed matter.
typographic
A reference to the action, or process, of printing.
typography (s) (noun), typographies (pl)
1. The action or process of printing; especially, the setting and arrangement of types and printing from them: When Ivan was in school, he studied typography as part of his graphic arts course.
2. The arrangement and appearance of printed matter: The typography on the front page of the newspaper was eye-catching.
The style or appearance of printed material.
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Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "form, shape, appearance": eido-; figur-; form-; icono-; ideo-; imag-; morpho-; -oid.