biological

From biology + -ical. biology Learned borrowing from New Latin biologia. New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek - βίος + λογία. by surface analysis, en + bio- + -logy. In English, first attested in the modern meaning in the work of English physician Thomas Beddoes in 1799. The term is also recorded in the sense of a biographical history in the work of Dudley Loftus in 1686, but this is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be an isolated use. The modern Greek βιολογία is borrowed from the English term and French biologie via international scientific vocabulary. zoology.

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