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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- 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."
- word-forming element meaning "a
speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science,"
from Gk. -logia (often via Fr. -logie or M.L. -logia), from root of
legein "to speak;" thus, "the character or
deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);"
see lecture
(n.).
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