Monday, 17 December 2012

biogeography=الجغرافيا البيولوجية

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biogeography=الجغرافيا البيولوجية
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
biogeography (n.)
also bio-geography, 1892, from bio- + geography. Related: Biogeographical.
bio-
word-forming element, from Greek 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. Sanskrit jivah "alive, living;" Old English cwic "alive;" Latin vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" Middle Persian zhiwak "alive;" Old Church Slavonic zivo "to live;" Lithuanian gyvas "living, alive;" Old Irish bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world"). Equivalent of Latin vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean "organic life."
geography (n.)
1540s, from M.Fr. géographie (15c.), from L. geographia, from Gk. geographia "description of the earth's surface," from geo- "earth" + -graphia "description" (see -graphy).








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