biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī-ŏl′-əjē
ipa: /baɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
ipa: /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /baɪˌɑl(ə)ˈd͡ʒi/
note: Indic
ipa: /baj(ɵ)ˈlɔdʒi/
note: Indic
ipa: /baˈjɔlədʒi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbaj(ɵ)lədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: biologies
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
Borrowed from New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”). By surface analysis, bio- + -logy.
In English, first attested in the modern meaning in the work of English physician Thomas Beddoes in 1799. The term is also recorded in the sense of a biographical history in the work of Dudley Loftus in 1686, but this is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be an isolated use. The modern Greek βιολογία (viología) is borrowed from the English term and French biologie via international scientific vocabulary. Piecewise doublet of zoology.
Senses: examples: text: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref: 2012 January 23, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2013, page 31:
synonyms: life science
life sciences
lifelore
glosses: The study of all life or living matter.
examples: text: The object of these prizes is to stimulate and encourage original investigation by the aid of the microscope in the biology of North America, and, while the competition is open to all, it is especially commended to advanced students in biology in such of our universities and colleges as furnish opportunity for suitable work.
ref: 1893, “Prizes for original work with the microscope”, in Proceedings of the American Microscopical Society, volume 14, page 38:
glosses: The living organisms of a particular region.
examples: text: the biology of the whale
glosses: The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
examples: text: That a Town has a biology of its own has been, since Freeman and Green, a familiar idea to us. But it was not in England, with its old established central governments, that the idea was likely to arise; and we know what the local history of our old antiquaries was like.
ref: 1912, J. H. Rose, C[harles] H[arold] Herford, E[dward] C[arter] K[earsey] Gonner, M[ichael] E[rnest] Sadler, Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Five Lectures, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., page 67:
glosses: A biographical history.
Synonyms: word: biology
word: lifelore
Meronyms: word: zoology
word: botany
word: cytology
word: microbiology
word: anatomy
word: physiology
word: ciliatology
word: genetics
Derived terms: abiology
actinobiology
aerobiology
agrobiology
anthropobiology
archaeobiology
astrobiology
biologese
biologistic
biostitute
chemical biology
chemobiology
chronobiology
conservation biology
cosmobiology
cryobiology
cytobiology
developmental biology
electrobiology
ethnobiology
evolutionary biology
evolutionary developmental biology
exobiology
forensic biology
geobiology
geomicrobiology
glycobiology
gnotobiology
heliobiology
hydrobiology
idiobiology
immunobiology
limnobiology
macrobiology
magnetobiology
marine biology
mathematical biology
mechanobiology
metabiology
metallobiology
microbiology
molecular biology
mycobiology
myobiology
nanobiology
neurobiology
nonbiology
oncobiology
optobiology
palaeobiology
paleobiology
parabiology
pathobiology
photobiology
phytobiology
population biology
protobiology
pseudobiology
psychobiology
radiation biology
radiobiology
saprobiology
scotobiology
sialobiology
sociobiology
soil microbiology
space biology
speleobiology
structural biology
synthetic biology
systems biology
topobiology
xenobiology
zoobiology
Related terms: word: biologic
word: biological
word: biologically
word: biologism
word: biologist
word: biologize
word: life
word: cell
word: organelle
word: organ
word: organism
word: individual
word: population
word: ecosystem
word: biosphere
word: homeostasis
word: metabolism
word: species
word: taxonomy
word: taxon
word: organic compound
word: evolution
word: domain
word: kingdom
word: phylum
word: class
word: order
word: family
word: genus
word: :Category:Biology
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