bioloģija

See also: biologija and bioloģijā

Latvian

Etymology

A modern coinage, with components derived from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) and -λογία (-logía, “branch of study”), with variants that arose in various European languages around 1800. It was borrowed into Latvian and adapted (e.g. +‎ -ija).

Noun

bioloģija f (4th declension)

  1. biology (science, or complex of sciences, that studies living organisms, their bodies, development, ways of life, and classification)
    molekulārā bioloģija ― molecular biology
    bioloģijas fakultāte ― faculty of biology
    bioloģijas zinātņu kandidāts, doktors ― doctoral candidate, doctor in the biological sciences
  2. biology (the development and way of life of a living organism or a group of living organisms)
    zivju bioloģija ― fish biology

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