papyrographer

English

Etymology

From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) +‎ -grapher (“writer”) and papyrograph +‎ -er.

Noun

papyrographer (plural papyrographers)

(rare, chiefly historical) One who writes on papyrus.
- 1906, James Hope Moulton, Grammar of New Testament Greek, volume I, page 159:
  In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.
(rare) Synonym of papyrologist.
(historical) One who uses a papyrograph to copy documents.

References

“papyro-, comb. form”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

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