biography (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[biography 词源字典]
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.[biography etymology, biography origin, 英语词源]