biology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
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.
Base: βίος
Affixes: -λογία
Inflected forms:
form: biologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of all life or living matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: life science, life sciences; see also Thesaurus:biology
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
gloss: The living organisms of a particular region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the biology of the whale
gloss: A biographical history.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: biology
lifelore
Related words: biologic
biological
biologically
biologism
biologist
biologize
life
cell
organelle
organ
organism
individual
population
ecosystem
biosphere
homeostasis
metabolism
species
taxonomy
taxon
organic compound
evolution
domain
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus
microbiologist
botanist
mycologist
zoologist
aerobiologist
agrobiologist
anthropobiologist
arachnologist
chronobiologist
cryobiologist
cytobiologist
developmental biologist
electrobiologist
endocytobiologist
entomologist
ethnobiologist
evolutionary biologist
geobiologist
geomicrobiologist
glycobiologist
gnotobiologist
hydrobiologist
immunobiologist
limnobiologist
macrobiologist
marine biologist
magnetobiologist
metabiologist
molecular biologist
nanobiologist
neurobiologist
palaeobiologist
paleobiologist
parabiologist
pathobiologist
photobiologist
phytobiologist
population biologist
psychobiologist
radiobiologist
saprobiologist
sociobiologist
protobiologist
astrobiologist
cosmobiologist
exobiologist
xenobiologist
pseudobiologist
:Category:Biology
List of biology disciplines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Outline of biology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived words: 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
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