- Bionics=الـبيونيك
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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- 1959, from bio- + second element from electronic; also see -ics.
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- bionic (adj.)
- 1901, as a term in the study of fossils, from Gk. bios "life" (see bio-). Meaning "pertaining to bionics" is recorded from 1963. Popular sense of "superhumanly gifted or durable" is from 1976, from popular U.S. television program "The Bionic Man" and its spin-offs.
- word-forming element, from Gk. bio-, comb. form of bios "one's life, course or way of living, lifetime" (as opposed to zoe "animal life, organic life"), from PIE root *gweie- "to live" (cf. Skt. jivah "alive, living;" O.E. cwic "alive;" L. vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" M.Pers. zhiwak "alive;" O.C.S. zivo "to live;" Lith. gyvas "living, alive;" O.Ir. bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world"). Equivalent of L. vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean "organic life."
WIKIPEDIA:
The
word bionic was coined by Jack
E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical
term bion (pronounced bee-on) (from Ancient
Greek: βίος), meaning 'unit of
life' and the suffix
-ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'.
Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a
portmanteau
from biology + electronics.
The
term biology
is derived from the Greek
word βίος,
bios, "life"
and the suffix -λογία,
-logia, "study of."[4]
The Latin form of the term first appeared in 1736 when Linnaeus
(Carl von Linné) used biologi in his Bibliotheca botanica.
It was used again in 1766 in a work entitled Philosophiae
naturalis sive physicae: tomus III, continens geologian, biologian,
phytologian generalis, by Michael Christoph Hanov, a disciple of
Christian Wolff
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