biology
/baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.22 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "the biology of the whale"
- "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."
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 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- British English: /baɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Biology.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
organic compound
developmental biologist
evolutionary biologist
marine biologist
molecular biologist
population biologist
List of biology disciplines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Outline of biology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia