# bio
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbaɪəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈbaɪoʊ/
* Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

### Noun

bio (plural bios)
* Clipping of biography.
    To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
** 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).
** 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter‎:Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.
** 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan‎:She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.
* A biographical sketch.
* (informal) Clipping of biology.
    I've got a bio exam in the morning.
** 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian‎:It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
* (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
** 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.

#### Translations
### Adjective

bio (not comparable)
* (informal) biological.
    a bio detergent
    my bio family
    We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

#### Derived terms

* bio box
* bio break
* bio energy
* bio female
* bio male
* bio queen
* non-bio

### Anagrams

* BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

## Chinese
### Etymology

From the clipping of English biology.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): baai$^6$ o$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baai$^6$ o$^1$
*** Yale: baaih ō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baai$^6$ o$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bai$^6$ o$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/

### Noun

bio
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

#### Synonyms

* 生物學／生物学 (shēngwùxué)

### See also

* phy chem bio

## Danish
### Noun

bio
* (slang) cinema
* (slang) biology

## Dutch
### Etymology

From biologie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.oː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bio

### Noun

bio f (uncountable)
* (informal) biology (as a school subject)
    Synonym: biologie

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bjo/
* Rhymes: -o

### Etymology 1

Clipping of biologique.

#### Adjective

bio (invariable)
* (colloquial) biological
* (ecology) organic

#### Noun

bio m (uncountable)
* (informal) the organic movement
* (informal) organic food

### Etymology 2

Clipping of biologie.

#### Noun

bio f (plural bios)
* (colloquial) biology

### Etymology 3

Clipping of biographie.

#### Noun

bio f (plural bios)
* (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

### Further reading

* “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* Ibo

## Guerrero Amuzgo
### Noun

bio
* time

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈbio/ [ˈbi.o]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: bi‧o

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

#### Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)
* (dialectal) baby porridge made from sago

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 廟／庙 (biō, biāu, “temple”).

#### Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)
* a special temple for Chinese descendants

### Further reading

* “bio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Adjective

bio (invariable)
* (informal) Clipping of biologico.; organic, biological

### Anagrams

* obi

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish béo. The broad/slender contrast is lost in labial consonants with earlier */bʲ/ re-analysed as consonant cluster /bj/ and often [blʲ].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bjoː/, [blʲoː], [bʲoː]

### Adjective

bio
* alive
* live

### Noun

bio m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
* living person

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bîo/
* Hyphenation: bi‧o

### Adjective

bȉo (Cyrillic spelling би̏о, definite bijȇlī, comparative bjèljī)
* Alternative form of bijȇl.

### Participle

bio (Cyrillic spelling био)
* masculine singular active past participle of biti

## Spanish
### Adjective

bio (invariable)
* Clipping of biológico (“organic (grown without agrochemicals)”).

## Swedish
### Etymology

Clipping of biograf (“movie theater”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bio c
* cinema, movie theater, the movies
    Jag ska på bio ikväll, vill du hänga med?I'm going to the cinema tonight, you wanna join?

#### Usage notes

For the plural, the suppletive form biografer is usually used, similar to many other Swedish words ending on /ʊ/, compare radio.

#### Derived terms

* biosalong

## West Makian
### Etymology

Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.o/

### Noun

bio
* taro

### References

* James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics