φυσιολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φύσις (phúsis) +‎ -λογίᾱ (-logíā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /ɸy.si.o.loˈʝi.a/ → /fi.si.o.loˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰy.si.o.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸy.si.o.loˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fy.si.o.loˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.si.o.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

φῠσῐολογίᾱ • (phŭsĭologíā) f (genitive φῠσῐολογίᾱς); first declension

1. inquiry into natural causes and phenomena

Declension

First declension of ἡ φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱ hē phŭsĭologĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱς tês phŭsĭologĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾳ têi phŭsĭologĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn phŭsĭologĭ́ān
Vocative	φῠσῐολογῐ́ᾱ phŭsĭologĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• φυσιολογικός (phusiologikós)
• φυσιολόγος (phusiológos)

Descendants

• Greek: φυσιολογία (fysiología)
• Latin: physiologia (see there for further descendants)
• Russian: физиоло́гия (fiziológija)
  • → Armenian: ֆիզիոլոգիա (fiziologia)
  • → Kazakh: физиология (fiziologiä)
• Ukrainian: фізіоло́гія (fiziolóhija)

Further reading

• φυσιολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• φυσιολογία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “φυσιολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • natural philosophy idem, page 552.
  • physics idem, page 611.

Greek

Noun

φυσιολογία • (fysiología) f (uncountable)

1. (physiology, biology) physiology

Declension

Declension of φυσιολογία

	singular
nominative	φυσιολογία (fysiología)
genitive	φυσιολογίας (fysiologías)
accusative	φυσιολογία (fysiología)
vocative	φυσιολογία (fysiología)

Related terms

• φυσιολόγος m or f (fysiológos, “physiologist”)
• φυσιολογικός (fysiologikós, “physiological, normal”)

Further reading

• φυσιολογία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el