prosopography
noun
prosopography is a noun meaning “A study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-S-O-P-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of prosopography is prosopographies.
What does prosopography mean?
noun
- 1
A study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of prosopography
- prosopographies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is prosopography?
Prosopography appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Prosopography in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and th:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prosopographie |
| German | Prosopographie |
| Portuguese | prosopografia |
| Spanish | prosopografía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does prosopography come from?
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: prosopo- + -graphy; from the Latin prosōpographia (“description of a person’s appearance; description of an individual’s life”), from the Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā, “writing, drawing”). See also prosopon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).