bioloģija
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)
- 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
- biology (the development and way of life of a living organism or a group of living organisms)
- zivju bioloģija ― fish biology
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bioloģija | — |
| genitive | bioloģijas | — |
| dative | bioloģijai | — |
| accusative | bioloģiju | — |
| instrumental | bioloģiju | — |
| locative | bioloģijā | — |
| vocative | bioloģija | — |