The word 'biro' or 'Biro' comes from the name of the inventor of the ballpoint pen as we know it now, and refers specifically to the Biro and generically to that type of pen.
The inventor's name was László József Bíró (or, in his native Hungarian, Bíró László József); he lived from 1899 to 1985.
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The surname 'Biro' originates from Hungary. It is a common Hungarian surname.
Biro means joke. Filipinos are humorous people and they love to joke around.
The root word of 'Named' Is, obviously, Name. :)
The suffix of the word named is ed. When you have the word name, and add ed on the end it will make nameed. That's why when you add the ed, you cut of the e that was already there in name and when that e is cut off, it goes to make named.
The word "eponym" means named after a person or place, often used to describe something named in honor of a specific individual.
It was named after László József Bíro, the man that invented it.
The ball point pen known as a biro is named after László József Bíró.
The ballpoint pen, also known as the Biro pen, was named after its inventor, Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian-Argentinian journalist.
cheese Um, nope. Not from cheese. It's Hungarian and it means "judge". A Hungarian man named Biro invented the ball point pen, thus them being called "Biro's" in England. Although many people pronounce it "BI-ro" it's actually supposed to be "Beer-o".
I think they are both named after people.
Biro was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931. In 1943 he moved to Argentina and on 10 June filed another patent, and formed Biro Pens of Argentina.
lazlo biro invented the biro in 1985
The Biro brothers invented the ball point pen. Years later, the BIC company, which had made its fortune by marketing inexpensive but very functional ball point pens, named one of its ball point pens after them, calling it the Biro.
Ladislao Biro Invented the Biro with his brother, Georg.
A biro is a BIRO-brand ballpoint pen, or by extension, any variety of ballpoint pen.
Barney Biro's birth name is Barnet Wolf Biro.
Laszlo Biro's wife's name is Elsa Elizabeth Schick Biro.