bio

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bio"

Translingual

Symbol

bio

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nai.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nai terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

Noun

bio (plural bios)

1. Clipping of biography.
   • 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:

     Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).

2. (social media) A short section of a user profile that contains information about the user, especially one which can be customised; the about me section.

   Synonym: biopage

   To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.

   • 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.

   • 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.

3. A biographical sketch.
4. (informal) Clipping of biology.

   I've got a bio exam in the morning.

   • 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.

5. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
   • 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:

     Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.

Translations

biographical sketch

• Polish: biogram (pl) m

Adjective

bio (not comparable)

1. (informal) biological.

   a bio detergent

   my bio family

   We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

Derived terms

• bio box
• bio break
• bio energy
• bio female
• bio male
• bio queen
• non-bio

Anagrams

• BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

Chinese

Etymology

From the clipping of English biology.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baai⁶ o¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baai⁶ o¹
    • Yale: baaih ō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baai⁶ o¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bai⁶ o¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/

Noun

bio

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

Synonyms

• 生物學／生物学 (shēngwùxué)

See also

• phy chem bio

Danish

Noun

bio

1. (slang) cinema
2. (slang) biology

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.oː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bio

Noun

bio f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (informal) clipping of biologie (“biology”)

Usage notes

• Mostly used by high school pupils in reference to the school subject.

Related terms

• bio-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjo/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Clipping of biologique.

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. (colloquial) biological
2. (ecology) organic

Noun

bio m (uncountable)

1. (informal) the organic movement
2. (informal) organic food

Etymology 2

Clipping of biologie.

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial) biology

Etymology 3

Clipping of biographie.

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

Further reading

• “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• Ibo

Guerrero Amuzgo

Noun

bio

1. time

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbio/ [ˈbi.o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bi‧o

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. (dialectal) baby porridge made from sago

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 廟／庙 (biō, biāu, “temple”).

Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. a special temple for Chinese descendants

Further reading

• “bio”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. (informal) clipping of biologico; organic, biological

Anagrams

• obi

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish béo. The broad/slender contrast is lost in labial consonants with earlier */bʲ/ re-analysed as consonant cluster /bj/ and often [blʲ].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjoː/, [blʲoː], [bʲoː]

Adjective

bio

1. alive
2. live

Noun

bio m

1. living person

Mutation

Mutation of bio

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bio	vio	mio

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi͜uː/
• Rhymes: -i͜uː

Verb

bīo

1. alternative form of bēo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi͜uː/
• Rhymes: -i͜uː

Noun

bīo f

1. alternative form of bēo

Declension

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	bīo	bīon
accusative	bīon	bīon
genitive	bīon	bīona
dative	bīon	bīom, bīoum

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bîo/
• Hyphenation: bi‧o

Adjective

bȉo (Cyrillic spelling би̏о, definite bijȇlī, comparative bjȅljī or bjèlijī) (Ijekavian)

1. alternative form of bijȇl

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bylъ.

Participle

bio (Cyrillic spelling био)

1. active past participle of biti

Spanish

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. clipping of biológico (“organic (grown without agrochemicals)”)

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of biograf (“movie theater”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

bio c

1. cinema, movie theater, the movies

   Jag ska på bio ikväll, vill du hänga med?

   I'm going to the cinema tonight, you wanna join?

Usage notes

For the plural, the suppletive form biografer is usually used, similar to many other Swedish words ending on /ʊ/, compare radio.

Declension

Declension of bio

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bio	bios
	definite	bion	bions
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• biosalong

West Makian

Etymology

Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.o/

Noun

bio

1. taro

References

• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics