ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
autobiography (n.) Look up autobiography at Dictionary.com
1797, from auto- + biography. Related: Autobiographical.
auto- Look up auto- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "self, one's own, by oneself," from Greek auto- "self, one's own," combining form of autos "self, same," of unknown origin. Before a vowel, aut-; before an aspirate, auth-. In Greek also used as a prefix to proper names, e.g. automelinna "Melinna herself." The opposite prefix would be allo-.
WIKTIONARY: Etymology
From modern Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (“life”) + γράφω (“write”).
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