Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

biologic

/bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: bi-o-log-ic
IPA: /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.

noun

An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or from products of a living organism.

Example Sentences

"Biologic femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point."
"A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday."
"It involved 136 biologics approved in the United States and 105 in the European Union between January 1995 and June 2007. A total of 41, or nearly 24 percent, got safety warnings issued through June 2008."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos 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. Latin -logia New Latin biologialbor. English biology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English biologic From biology + -ic.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Biology.

Inflected Forms

biologics (plural)

Derived Forms

abiologic chemicobiologic chronobiologic immunobiologic microbiologic nonbiologic orthobiologic palaeobiologic paleobiologic photobiologic prebiologic psychobiologic

Phrases

biologic time

Synonyms

biopharmaceutical biological

Rhymes With

logic geologic tajik neurologic physiologic pathologic gynecologic demagogic illogic karadzic technologic analogic

Questions

How do you pronounce biologic?: The recorded pronunciation is /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/.
What does biologic mean?: Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
Where does biologic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos 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. Latin -logia New Latin biologialbor. English biology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English biologic From biology + -ic.

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