DictionaryRoot: bios
Greek
bios
life
Forms
- bi-
- bio- — Combining form with a linking vowel.
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *gʷeih₃-, ‘live.’
Note
In Greek, this noun could describe a way of living as well as a lifetime.
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noun
biography
by-AH-gruh-fee/baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
A written or recorded account of someone's life.
Etymology
Life joined to written description presents a person's life as a recorded account. The word first named histories of individual lives as a literary field, then an individual life history.