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it is a greco latin hybrid that came via France to get an English ending

carto a fanciful combining form of the latin word carta

which meant a leaf of paper or a card before it came to mean a map or a chart

plus graph from the greek graphein meaning to write or draw

caused the invention of cartographie in modern french

& so by 1859 cartography in English

& cartographer arose in English probably soon after that

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