biologie
Afrikaans
Derived terms
Czech
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Biologie, from a Ancient Greek βιολογία (biología). This is a compound of van βίος (bíos, “life”) and λόγος (lógos, “reason”) with the suffix -ία (-ía) (forms abstracta), equivalent to bio- + -logie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbi(j)oːloːˈɣi/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bio‧lo‧gie (orthographic)
- Hyphenation: bi‧o‧lo‧gie (phonological)
- Rhymes: -i
Derived terms
Related terms
French
Etymology
bio- + -logie, with components derived from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjɔ.lɔ.ʒi/
Audio 1 (France, Paris) (file) Audio 2 (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ʒi
- Homophone: biologies
- Hyphenation: bio‧lo‧gie
Derived terms
Further reading
- “biologie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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