Where does “biologia” come from?
biologia (Italian) comes from Italian -logia, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
biologia (Italian): biology
Definitions
- biology
Ancestry of “biologia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | -logia | -logy |
| 2 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “biologia”
- esobiologia
- astrobiologia
- biologico
- geobiologia
- radiobiologia
- microbiologia
- idrobiologia
- fotobiologia
- agrobiologia
- allobiologia
- archeobiologia
- cosmobiologia
- criobiologia
- cronobiologia
- fitobiologia
- metabiologia
- paleobiologia
- psicobiologia
- sociobiologia
- speleobiologia
- talassobiologia
- elettrobiologia
- xenobiologia
- etnobiologia