biologist

English

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

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English biologist

From biology + -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

biologist (plural biologists)

2. A student or professor of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

   Antonym: nonbiologist

   Hypernyms: scientist < person

   Hyponyms: microbiologist, botanist, mycologist, zoologist; aerobiologist, agrobiologist, anthropobiologist, arachnologist, chronobiologist, cryobiologist, cytobiologist, developmental biologist, electrobiologist, endocytobiologist, entomologist, ethnobiologist, evolutionary biologist, geobiologist, geomicrobiologist, glycobiologist, gnotobiologist, hydrobiologist, immunobiologist, limnobiologist, macrobiologist, marine biologist, magnetobiologist, metabiologist, microbiologist, molecular biologist, nanobiologist, neurobiologist, palaeobiologist, paleobiologist, parabiologist, pathobiologist, photobiologist, phytobiologist, population biologist, psychobiologist, radiobiologist, saprobiologist, sociobiologist, speleobiologist

   Coordinate terms: protobiologist, pseudobiologist; (also construable as hyponymous) astrobiologist, cosmobiologist, exobiologist, xenobiologist

   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 June 2015:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

   • 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

Derived terms

• aerobiologist
• agrobiologist
• anthropobiologist
• astrobiologist
• chronobiologist
• cosmobiologist
• cryobiologist
• cytobiologist
• developmental biologist
• electrobiologist
• endocytobiologist
• ethnobiologist
• evolutionary biologist
• exobiologist
• geobiologist
• geomicrobiologist
• glycobiologist
• gnotobiologist
• hydrobiologist
• immunobiologist
• limnobiologist
• macrobiologist
• magnetobiologist
• marine biologist
• metabiologist
• microbiologist
• molecular biologist
• nanobiologist
• neurobiologist
• nonbiologist
• palaeobiologist
• paleobiologist
• parabiologist
• pathobiologist
• photobiologist
• phytobiologist
• population biologist
• protobiologist
• pseudobiologist
• psychobiologist
• radiobiologist
• saprobiologist
• sociobiologist
• speleobiologist
• xenobiologist

Translations

student of biology; one versed in the science of biology

• Albanian: biolog (sq)
• Arabic: أَحْيَائِي m (ʔaḥyāʔī)
• Armenian: կենսաբան (hy) (kensaban)
• Asturian: biólogu (ast) m, bióloga (ast) f
• Basque: biologo (eu)
• Belarusian: біёлаг m (bijólah)
• Bulgarian: биоло́г (bg) m (biológ), биоло́жка (bg) f (biolóžka)
• Catalan: biòleg m, biòloga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物學家 / 生物学家 (zh) (shēngwùxuéjiā)

• Czech: biolog (cs) m, bioložka (cs) f
• Danish: biolog (da) c
• Dutch: bioloog (nl) m, biologe (nl) f
• Esperanto: biologo (eo), biologino (female), biologiisto (eo), biologiistino (female)
• Estonian: bioloog (et)
• Finnish: biologi (fi)
• French: biologiste (fr) m or f, biologue (fr) m or f (obsolete)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: biolooch, biologe

• Galician: biólogo (gl) m, bióloga f
• German: Biologe (de) m, Biologin (de) f
• Greek: βιολόγος (el) m or f (viológos)
• Greenlandic: biologi
• Hebrew: ביולוג \ בִּיוֹלוֹג (he) m (biológ)
• Hindi: जीवविज्ञानी m (jīvvijñānī)
• Hungarian: biológus (hu)
• Icelandic: líffræðingur (is) m
• Indonesian: biolog, ahli biologi, biologiwan, biologi (id), biologiwati f
• Irish: bitheolaí m
• Italian: biologo (it) m, biologa (it) f
• Japanese: 生物学者 (ja) (せいぶつがくしゃ, seibutsugakusha)
• Korean: 생물학자(生物學者) (ko) (saengmulhakja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژینناس (jînnas)

• Latin: biologus m, biologa f
• Latvian: biologs m, bioloģe f
• Macedonian: биоло́г m (biológ)
• Māori: kaimātai koiora
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biolog m

  Nynorsk: biolog (nn) m

• Persian: زیست‌شناس (zistšenās)
• Polish: biolog (pl) m or f, biolożka (pl) f
• Portuguese: biólogo (pt) m, bióloga f, biologista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: biolog (ro) m, biologă (ro) f
• Russian: био́лог (ru) m (biólog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: био̀лог m, биоло̀гица f

  Latin: biòlog (sh) m, biològica (sh) f

• Slovak: biológ (sk) m, biologička (sk) f
• Slovene: biolog (sl) m, biologinja f
• Spanish: biólogo (es) m, bióloga (es) f
• Swahili: mwanabiolojia
• Swedish: biolog (sv) c
• Tagalog: haynayanon, manghahaynay
• Thai: นักชีววิทยา (nák-chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: biyolog (tr), dirim bilimci (tr)
• Ukrainian: біо́лог (uk) m (bióloh), біологи́ня f (biolohýnja)
• Urdu: ماہرِ حیاتیات m (māhir-e-hayātiyāt), ماہرۂ حیاتیات f (māhirā-e-hayātiyāt), حیاتیات دان m or f (hayātiyāt-dān)
• Volapük: lifavan, hilifavan (male), jilifavan (female)