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

Albanian: paleontologjí (sq) f, paleontologjía f 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