Other forms: autographs
An autograph is a famous person's signature, collected by fans. Ask for an autograph, an autograph book, sign an autograph.
It differs from a signature by purpose rather than form — the same mark, wanted as a keepsake rather than as a consent. In manuscript study, an autograph is a document in the author's own hand, which is the older and stricter sense. Note that the Greek means written by oneself.
1nounautographA famous person's signature collected as a keepsake.
“After the match, the fans waited outside to get the players' autographs.”
2noundocumentA document in the author's own hand.
“The library holds the composer's autograph of the symphony, with his own corrections.”
autograph is a signature.
Greek autographon means written in one's own hand — autos, self, plus graphein, to write. Graph and biography come from the same writing.
Latin
autographum
English, today
autograph
From Latin autographum. From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (“a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA