biographize

动词 v.
/baɪˈɒɡɹəfaɪz/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To write a biography of. transitive
    — [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.

词形变化

biographizes present,singular,third-person biographizing participle,present biographized participle,past biographized past biographise alternative,UK

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía)
Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der.
New Latin biographiabor.
English biography
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English biographize
From biography + -ize.
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