Etymology

biographize

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Today it means: To write a biography of. Full definition →

English biography ← New Latin biographia ← Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  2. Ancient Greekβίος (bíos)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  4. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  5. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  6. Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
  7. Ancient Greekβιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)
  8. New Latinbiographia
  9. Englishbiography
  10. English todaybiographize

From biography + -ize.

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