physio- 或 physi- 或 phys-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Nature; natural:
表示“自然；自然的”：
physiography.
自然地理学 - Physical:
表示“身体的，物质的，物理的”：
physiotherapy.
物理疗法
语源
- Greek phusio-
希腊语 phusio- - from phusis [nature] * see bheuə-
源自 phusis [自然] *参见 bheuə-
physio- or (before a vowel) phys-
combining form
of or relating to nature or natural functions
⇒
physiology
physical
⇒
physiotherapy
Origin
from Greek phusio, from phusis nature, from phuein to make growphysio-
Word Origin
1
a combining form representing physical, or physiological, in compound words:
physiotherapy.
Origin
< Greek physio- combining form of phýsis origin, form, natural order. See physis, -o-
Related Words
- physiocrat
- physiography
- physiology
- physiometry
- physiopathology
- physiotherapy
physio-a word element representing 'physical', 'physics'.
[Greek, combining form of physis nature]physio-
combining form
⇨ see physi-
combining form
⇨ see physi-
physio-
combining form
1.
- relating to nature and natural phenomena表示“自然”, “自然现象”：
-
physiography.
2.
- representing
PHYSIOLOGY 表示“生理学”。
词源
from Greek phusis 'nature'.
1887 A. M. Brown Anim. Alkal. 5The presence of the alkaloid might be owing to *physio-chemical action after death.
1844 Upton Physioglyphics 101In a literal hiero⁓glyphic, therefore, or what I shall now more aptly term a *physioglyphic, no name must be involved.
1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 60The Meteorologians answer not so fully satisfactorie as theirs, who treate of spirits, whom I may well call *Physiognosticks.
1811–31 Bentham LogicApp. ,Wks. 1843 VIII. 284Natural History..which..may more aptly and expressively, it should seem, be designated by the term *Physiognosy.
1880 C. A. Cutter Classif. Nat. Sc. in LibraryJrnl. June,A similar word, Fysiognosy..supplies a name which was wanted for the natural sciences collectively.
1885 Proc. BostonSoc. Nat. Hist. XXIII. 226It should consist of three parts or sections, first Statical Geognosy or Physiognosy.
1800 Coleridge in C. K. Paul W. Godwin (1876) II. 3Your poetic and *Physiopathic feelings.
1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 777We cannot even say if it..be of a *physio-pathological character, or a specific germ.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxvi. 413Certain physio⁓pathological qualities predisposing to the disease may be inherited.
1797–1803 Foster in Life &Corr. (1846) I. 212What may be called *physiopathy, a faculty of pervading all nature with one's own being.
1804 Coleridge Lett. , to R. Sharp (1895) 448,I have met with several genuine Philologists, Philonoists, *Physiophilists, keen hunters after knowledge and science.
1879 tr. Haeckel'sEvol. Man I. i. 24*Physiophyly. The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the palæontological development of vital activities.
1811–31 Bentham LogicApp. ,Wks. 1843 VIII. 284/1In their *physioplastic state, in the state in which, fashioned by the hand of nature, they are found in the bosom of nature. [ bodies]
1939 Burlington Mag. June 300/2The familiar opposition between geometrical and ‘vital’ forms, impressionist and expressionist art, ‘ideoplastic’ and ‘physioplastic’, and so on, is shown to possess a concrete sanction in the aesthetic attitudes of blind artists.
1943 Physioplastic . [ see ideoplastic a.]
1932 G. Blumer in PractitionersLibr. Med. &Surg. I. ix. 698Constitution, which includes *physiopsychologic factors, may change considerably during life.
1874 J. Cunningham New Theory of Knowing 155Every one..knows what is meant by getting a ‘start’, though the *physio-psychological explanation of it is not so clear.
1875 C. Wright Let. 12 July in R. B. Perry Tht. &Char. W. James (1935) I. 530The other is in a book-notice by him ..of Wundt's *physio-psychology. [ sc. William James]
1903 Amer. Anthropologist V. 586In a general way, comparative physio-psychology has aided us in the search for the key to this great problem . [ of various intellectual endowment]
1846 Joyce Sci. Dial. , Optics xxii. 332What is the opaque microscope?.. Very much the same sort of thing as the magic lantern; except that the light, instead of passing through the object, shines upon it, and is reflected off through the lenses, and so onward to the screen... The *physioscope is the same instrument, employed to depict ‘the human face’..in colossal dimensions upon the screen.
c1865 J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 64/2The physioscope is a modification of the magic lantern.
1886–94 H. Spencer Autobiog. II. xlvi. 193 note,Under ‘*physioscopy’ I propose to include the rendering of the phenomena of linear perspective, of aerial perspective, of light and shade, and of colour in so far as it is determined not by artistic choice, but by natural conditions.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 2/1The average medical man cannot afford the leisure for the systematic study of the *physio-sociological problems that lie in his path.
1886 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XX. 437/1Morphological facts are entirely superseded by fanciful ideas of the vaguest kind of *physiosophy.
1904 Daily News 23 June 11 A remarkable invention is..called ‘The *Physiotype’. A leaf, piece of lace, or other flat object is pressed upon a piece of prepared paper, but there is no visible mark made; the paper then has a powder..brushed over it, and the structure of the leaf or the pattern of the lace immediately appears in black.
physio-
word-forming element meaning "nature, natural, physical," from Greek physio-, comb. form of physios "nature" (see physic).
ORIGIN: Partly from Greek phusio- , from phusis nature, partly from physio(logy -o-
physio-
combining form. physical, as in physiology, physiography.
physio-
— see physi-
— see physi-
physio-
Prefix
- nature
- physical
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “nature”).