paleontology

English

Alternative forms

• palæontology (chiefly British)
• palaeontology (British)

Etymology

Attested since 1836 (as palæontology). From French paléontologie (attested since 1822). By surface analysis, paleo- (“ancient”) +‎ onto- (“being”) +‎ -logy (“study”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪli.ənˈtɒləd͡ʒi/, /ˌpæli.ənˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪli.ənˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

Noun

paleontology (uncountable)

1. (American spelling) Study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.

Hypernyms

• humanities

Hyponyms

• anthropology
• micropaleontology
• taphonomy

Derived terms

• micropaleontology
• paleontologic
• paleontological
• paleontologist

 

Translations

study of prehistoric forms of life

• Armenian: հնէաբանություն (hy) (hnēabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: paleontoloxía f
• Bulgarian: палеонтология f (paleontologija)
• Burmese: နိခါတကဗေဒ (my) (ni.hkata.ka.beda.)
• Catalan: paleontologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古生物學／古生物学 (zh) (gǔshēngwùxué)

• Czech: paleontologie (cs) f
• Danish: palæontologi (da) c
• Dutch: paleontologie (nl) f
• Finnish: paleontologia (fi)
• French: paléontologie (fr) f
• Galician: paleontoloxía (gl) f
• German: Paläontologie (de) f
• Greek: παλαιοντολογία (el) (palaiontología)
• Hindi: जीवाश्मिकी (jīvāśmikī)
• Icelandic: steingervingafræði f
• Indonesian: paleontologi (id)
• Irish: pailé-ointeolaíocht f
• Italian: paleontologia (it) f
• Japanese: 古生物学 (ja) (こせいぶつがく, koseibutsugaku)
• Khmer: បាសាណិភូតវិទ្យា (baasaanə pʰuut vityie)
• Korean: 고생물학(古生物學) (ko) (gosaengmulhak)
• Latvian: paleontoloģija f
• Lithuanian: paleontologija f
• Macedonian: палеонтологија f (paleontologija)
• Malay: kaji fosil, paleontologi (ms)
• Maori: mātai mātātoka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: палеонтологи (mn) (paleontologi)

  Mongolian: ᠫᠠᠯᠧᠣᠨ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠣᠯᠣᠭᠢ (palēontologi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paleontologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: paleontologi m

• Occitan: paleontologia (oc) f
• Polish: paleontologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: paleontologia (pt) f
• Romanian: paleontologie (ro) f
• Russian: палеонтоло́гия (ru) f (paleontológija)
• Spanish: paleontología (es) f
• Swahili: paleontolojia
• Swedish: paleontologi (sv) c
• Thai: บรรพชีวินวิทยา (ban-pá-chii-win-wít-tá-yaa)
• Vietnamese: cổ sinh vật học (古生物學)
• Volapük: fösilav (vo)
• Yiddish: פּאַלעאָנטאָלאָגיע f (paleontologye)

Further reading

• paleontology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia