Root word biography

Biography examples

biography (n.) s, "the histories of individual lives, as a branch of literature," probably from Medieval Latin biographia, from later Greek biographia "description of life" (which was not in classical Greek, bios alone being the word there for it), from Greek bios "life" (from .
root word biography

Suffix of biography

OED's earliest evidence for biography is from , in the writing of John Fell, bishop of Oxford.

Bio meaning examples

The Latin root of "biography" is "bio-", which means life or living.
What bio means in profile
From New Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).