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prosopographia

Syllables: pro·so·po·graph·i·a

prosopographia noun: the vivid description of someone's face or character.

Noun

prosopographia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) The vivid description of someone's face or character.
    1. (rhetoric) The description of feigned or imaginary characters, such as devils or harpies.

Origin of prosopographia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσωπογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (prosōpogrăphĭ́ā), from πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā, “writing, drawing”).

Questions about prosopographia

What does prosopographia mean?
Prosopographia means the vivid description of someone's face or character.
What part of speech is prosopographia?
Prosopographia is a noun.

Words near prosopographia in the dictionary

  1. prosoplasia
  2. prosoplectenchyma
  3. prosoplectenchymatous
  4. prosopo-
  5. prosopoagnosia
  6. prosopographia
  7. prosopographic
  8. prosopographical
  9. prosopographically
  10. prosopographies
  11. prosopography

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