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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίο- (bío-), combining form and stem of βίος (bíos, “life”).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- life
- Antonym: thanato-
- organic life
- biological
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
life
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See also[edit]
- (animal life in particular): zoo-
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “bio-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bio-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bio-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bio-” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bio- in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- bio- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Danish[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- (pertaining to) life
Derived terms[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίο- (bío-), combining form and stem of βίος (bíos, “life”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio-
- bio- + genezo (“genesis”) → biogenezo (“biogenesis”)
- bio- + kemio (“chemistry”) → biokemio (“biochemistry”)
- bio- + diverseco (“diversity”) → biodiverseco (“biodiversity”)
- bio- + industrio (“industry”) → bioindustrio (“bioindustry”)
- bio- + maso (“mass”) → biomaso (“biomass”)
- bio- + sintezo (“synthesis”) → biosintezo (“biosynthesis”)
- bio- + tekniko (“technique”) → biotekniko (“biotechnique”)
Derived terms[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Internationalism (see English bio-), ultimately from Ancient Greek βίο- (bío-).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “bio-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
From
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German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- life
- organically produced, or otherwise environmentally friendly
Derived terms[edit]
life
organically
See also[edit]
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Ido[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English bio-, French bio-, German bio-, Italian bio-, Spanish bio-, Portuguese bio-, French bio-, Portuguese bio-, English bio-, Russian био- (bio-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίο- (bío-), combining form and stem of βίος (bíos, “life”).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio-: (organic) life.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “bio-” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- Alternative form of bith-, used before a broad T.
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bio- | bhio- | mbio- |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “biot-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio- (life)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), either from *gʷih₃wós (“alive, living”), with the suffix *-wós, or from βίοτος (bíotos, “life”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ or *gʷih₃-etos (“life”), both from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
References[edit]
- “bio-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
References[edit]
- “bio-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio-
- bio- + geografia → biogeografia
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bio- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos). Doublet of zoo-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio- (indicates life)
Derived terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).
Prefix[edit]
bio-
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “bio-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio-; pertaining to life
Derived terms[edit]
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
bio-
- bio-
- bio- + amrywiaeth (“variety, diversity”) → bioamrywiaeth (“biodiversity”)
- bio- + cemeg (“chemistry”) → biocemeg (“biochemistry”)
- bio- + diraddio (“to degrade”) → bioddiraddio (“to biodegrade”)
- bio- + -leg (“-logy”) → bioleg (“biology”)
Derived terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| bio- | fio- | mio- | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References[edit]
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bio-”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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