abiotic
English
/ˌeɪ.baɪˈɑt.ɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
- Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
Etymology
Prefix from English biotic borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀ- (not, without, un-, privative, rub, no, -less, un, privative a, together, not-, privative prefix, prefix denoting absence lack), βιωτικός (of life, concerning relating to life), βίος (life, bio-, livelihood, food).
Origin
Ancient Greek
βίος
Gloss
life, bio-, livelihood, food
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
生
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -biotic English
- abarognosis English
- abiogenesis English
- abiotically English
- abrachia English
- acentric English
- acholia English
- acratia English
- adermatoglyphia English
- agnatha English
- agyria English
- alexithymia English
- biology English
- biota English
- biotic English
- biotically English
- bioticity English
- contrabiotic English
- epibiotic English
- eubiotic English
- exobiotic English
- geobiotic English
- hypobiotic English
- immunobiotic English
- microbiotic English
- oxybiotic English
- pharmabiotic English
- photobiotic English
- postbiotic English
- prebiotic English
- probiotic English
- psychobiotic English
- synbiotic English
- thiobiotic English
- xenobiotic English
- adaktylia Finnish
- aceratus Latin
- antibioticum Latin
- atresia Latin
- biographia Latin
- biologia Latin
- biophysicus Latin
- biosphaera Latin
- bioticus Latin
- biotĭcus Latin
- haematobius Latin
- Āfrica Latin
- Biologie German
- Bioscop German
- a- German
- agnath German
- bio- Hungarian
- -bio Italian
- bio- Italian
- a- Dutch, Flemish
- an- Dutch, Flemish
- abiogenèse French
- azote French
- biologie French
- био- Russian
- биология Russian
- биомасса Russian
- bio- Spanish, Castilian
- Πολύβιος Ancient Greek
- βίος Ancient Greek
- βιωτικός Ancient Greek
- βιόω Ancient Greek
- σύμβιος Ancient Greek
- ἀ- Ancient Greek
- ἀγνώμων Ancient Greek
- ἀκῐ́νδῡνος Ancient Greek
- ἄγαμος Ancient Greek
- ἄγνωστος Ancient Greek
- ἄκρατος Ancient Greek
- ἄφοβος Ancient Greek
- ἐναντίβιος Ancient Greek
- *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *n̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- abiotisk Norwegian Bokmål
- antibiotikum Norwegian Bokmål
- bio- Norwegian Bokmål
- bio- Portuguese
- a- Polish
- a- Norwegian Nynorsk
- bio- Norwegian Nynorsk
- aclamadach Irish
- aiceintreach Irish
- aiseotrópacht Irish
- asó- Irish
- antibiotikum Danish
- bio- Czech
- a- Serbo-Croatian
- а- Serbo-Croatian
- a- Catalan, Valencian
- bio- Catalan, Valencian
- bio- Galician
- α- Greek (modern)
- βίος Greek (modern)
- a- Translingual
- abranchiatus Translingual
- a- Latvian
- ביו־ Hebrew (modern)
- ביולוגיה Hebrew (modern)
- abiogenezė Lithuanian
- *ə- Proto-Hellenic
- acrotismus la-new
- biota
- agyria
- biotic
- acratia
- acholia
- -biotic
- biology
- agnatha
- acentric
- abrachia
- eubiotic
- exobiotic
- oxybiotic
- prebiotic
- geobiotic
- synbiotic
- probiotic
- epibiotic
- bioticity
- hypobiotic
- biotically
- postbiotic
- thiobiotic
- xenobiotic
- photobiotic
- alexithymia
- abarognosis
- microbiotic
- abiotically
- abiogenesis
- contrabiotic
- pharmabiotic
- psychobiotic
- immunobiotic
- adermatoglyphia