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=== Etymology === Some literature gives the word a Greek [[etymology]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fuller |first=Roy |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/958540533 |title=Probiotics: the scientific basis. |date=2012 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=978-94-011-2364-8 |oclc=958540533 |access-date=2022-10-31 |archive-date=2023-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701214701/https://worldcat.org/title/958540533 |url-status=live }}{{page needed|date=January 2024}}</ref><ref name="pmid11340528">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Alvarez-Olmos MI, Oberhelman RA |year=2001 |title=Probiotic agents and infectious diseases: a modern perspective on a traditional therapy |journal=Clin. Infect. Dis. |volume=32 |issue=11 |pages=1567–1576 |doi=10.1086/320518 |pmid=11340528 |doi-access=free}}</ref> but it appears to be a composite of the Latin preposition ''pro'', meaning 'for', and the Greek adjective βιωτικός (''biōtikos''), meaning 'fit for life, lively',<ref>{{Cite book |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |editor-last=Liddell |editor-first=Henry George |chapter=βιωτικός |editor-last2=Scott |editor-first2=Robert |chapter-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbiwtiko%2Fs |via=[[Perseus Project]] |access-date=2021-02-21 |archive-date=2023-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425182154/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry%3Dbiwtiko/s |url-status=live }}</ref> the latter deriving from the noun βίος (''bios''), meaning 'life'.<ref name="Hamilton-Miller_2003">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Hamilton-Miller JM, Gibson GR, Bruck W |date=October 2003 |title=Some insights into the derivation and early uses of the word 'probiotic' |journal=Br. J. Nutr. |volume=90 |issue=4 |page=845 |doi=10.1079/BJN2003954 |pmid=14552330 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
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