Translation
physics
Word origin
From Greek phusika, natural things, from phusis, nature. The same root gives English physics, physical and physician, the last of them because medicine was once the study of the natural body.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- phusis
- English cognates
- physics, physical, physician
Examples
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He studies physics at the university.
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Physics explains why the stone falls.
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Our physics teacher is young.
is the science; fizika is the adjective for both the discipline and the bodily sense of physical, and o is a physicist. The - suffix is the reliable way to turn any field into its practitioner, so gives o and gives o. That suffix and its neighbours are set out in the size and people affixes article.
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