lithograph [E19th] Both elements that form this word, lith(o)- (-lith at the end of words) from Greek lithos ‘stone’ and -graph Greek graphos ‘write, written, record, portrays’ (see graft) are very productive, particularly in modern inventions. Thus a single large stone is a monolith [M19th] ‘single stone’, and the Earth’s crust is the lithosphere [L19th] ‘stone region’. See also geography, photograph, telegraph.