bio

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bio"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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

Noun

bio (plural bios)

1. Clipping of biography.

   To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.

   • 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:

     Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).

   • 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.

   • 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.

2. A biographical sketch.
3. (informal) Clipping of biology.

   I've got a bio exam in the morning.

   • 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.

4. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
   • 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:

     Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.

Translations

biographical sketch

• Polish: biogram m

Adjective

bio (not comparable)

1. (informal) biological.

   a bio detergent

   my bio family

   We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

Derived terms

• bio box
• bio break
• bio energy
• bio female
• bio male
• bio queen
• non-bio

 

Anagrams

• BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

Chinese

Etymology

From the clipping of English biology.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baai⁶ o¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baai⁶ o¹
    • Yale: baaih ō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baai⁶ o¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bai⁶ o¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/

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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

Italian

Adjective

bio (invariable)

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

Anagrams

• obi

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish béo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [blʲoː], [bʲoː]

Adjective

bio

1. alive
2. live

Noun

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

1. living person

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bio	vio	mio
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

bio c

1. cinema, movie theater, the movies

   Jag ska på bio ikväll, vill du hänga med?

   I'm going to the cinema tonight, you wanna join?

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of bio

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bio	bios
	definite	bion	bions
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

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