microbiologist

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?

Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor.

English micro-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.

Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logia

New Latin biologialbor.

English biology

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English biologist

English microbiologist

From micro- + biologist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊ.baɪˈɒ.lə.dʒɪst/

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Noun

microbiologist (plural microbiologists)

2. A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.
   • 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2026:

     On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.

   • 2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN‎^[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 28 December 2025:

     No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.

Hyponyms

• bacteriologist

Derived terms

• geomicrobiologist

Translations

scientist specializing in microbiology

• Armenian: մանրէաբան (hy) (manrēaban)
• Catalan: microbiòleg m, microbiòloga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微生物學家 / 微生物学家 (zh) (wéishēngwù xuéjiā)

• Czech: mikrobiolog (cs) m
• Danish: mikrobiolog c
• Dutch: microbioloog (nl) m, microbiologe (nl) f
• Estonian: mikrobioloog (et)
• Finnish: mikrobiologi (fi)
• French: microbiologiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: microbiólogo (gl) m, microbióloga f
• German: Mikrobiologe (de) m, Mikrobiologin (de) f
• Greek: μικροβιολόγος (el) m or f (mikroviológos)
• Italian: microbiologo (it) m, microbiologa (it) f
• Japanese: 微生物学者 (ja) (びせいぶつがくしゃ, biseibutsu gakusha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikrobiolog m

  Nynorsk: mikrobiolog m

• Portuguese: microbiólogo (pt) m, microbióloga f
• Romanian: microbiolog (ro) m, microbiologist (ro) m
• Russian: микробио́лог (ru) m (mikrobiólog)
• Spanish: microbiólogo m, microbióloga f
• Swedish: mikrobiolog (sv) c
• Telugu: సూక్ష్మజీవశాస్త్రజ్ఞుడు (sūkṣmajīvaśāstrajñuḍu)

Romanian

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French micro-

German Biologiebor.

Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.

Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logia

Latin biologiabor.

French biologie

French microbiologie

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istalbor.

French -iste

French microbiologistebor.

Romanian microbiologist

Borrowed from French microbiologiste. By surface analysis, microbiologie + -ist.

Noun

microbiologist m (plural microbiologiști)

1. microbiologist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	microbiologist	microbiologistul	microbiologiști	microbiologiștii
genitive-dative	microbiologist	microbiologistului	microbiologiști	microbiologiștilor
vocative	microbiologistule		microbiologiștilor