biography的词源
英文词源
- biography (n.)
- 1680s, probably from Latin biographia, from Late Greek biographia "description of life," from Greek bio- "life" (see bio-) + graphia "record, account" (see -graphy). Biographia was not in classical Greek (bios alone was the word for it), though it is attested in later Greek from c.500.
中文词源
词根bio, 生命。词根graph, 写。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：biography 词源，biography 含义。
“传记”是叙述一个人生平经历的书或文章。Biography是从希腊语词biographia来的，bio，意思是“生活”、“生命”；grapho是“写”。合在一起即“生活的写照”。“自传”叫autobiography，即“自己的传记”。
和bio（生活、生命）有关的还有一些词，如biology（生物学），biosphere（生物圈，生命层）。
词根词缀： -bio-生命 + -graph-写 + -y名词词尾
