bio

English Online Dictionary. What means bio‎? What does bio mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

Noun

bio (plural bios)

1. Clipping of biography.
2. A biographical sketch.
3. (informal) Clipping of biology.
4. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).

Translations

Adjective

bio (not comparable)

1. (informal) biological.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

Chinese

Etymology

From the clipping of English biology.

Pronunciation

Noun

bio

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

Synonyms

• 生物學／生物学 (shēngwùxué)

See also

• phy chem bio

Danish

Noun

bio

1. (slang) cinema
2. (slang) biology

Dutch

Etymology

From biologie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.oː/
• Hyphenation: bio

Noun

bio f (uncountable)

1. (informal) biology (as a school subject)

   Synonym: biologie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Clipping of biologique.

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. (colloquial) biological
2. (ecology) organic

Noun

bio m (uncountable)

1. (informal) the organic movement
2. (informal) organic food

Etymology 2

Clipping of biologie.

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial) biology

Etymology 3

Clipping of biographie.

Noun

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

Further reading

• “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Ibo

Guerrero Amuzgo

Noun

bio

1. time

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbio/ [ˈbi.o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bi‧o

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. (dialectal) baby porridge made from sago

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 廟／庙 (biō, biāu, “temple”).

Noun

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. a special temple for Chinese descendants

Further reading

• “bio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. (informal) Clipping of biologico.; organic, biological

Anagrams

• obi

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish béo. The broad/slender contrast is lost in labial consonants with earlier */bʲ/ re-analysed as consonant cluster /bj/ and often [blʲ].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjoː/, [blʲoː], [bʲoː]

Adjective

bio

1. alive
2. live

Noun

bio m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. living person

Mutation

References

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bîo/
• Hyphenation: bi‧o

Adjective

bȉo (Cyrillic spelling би̏о, definite bijȇlī, comparative bjèljī)

1. Alternative form of bijȇl.

Participle

bio (Cyrillic spelling био)

1. masculine singular active past participle of biti

Spanish

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. Clipping of biológico (“organic (grown without agrochemicals)”).

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of biograf (“movie theater”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bio c

1. cinema, movie theater, the movies

Usage notes

For the plural, the suppletive form biografer is usually used, similar to many other Swedish words ending on /ʊ/, compare radio.

Declension

Derived terms

• biosalong

West Makian

Etymology

Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.o/

Noun

bio

1. taro

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[4], Pacific linguistics