entomology

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Etymology edit

From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy”)).

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Hyphenation: en‧to‧mo‧lo‧gy
Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

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entomology

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entomology (uncountable)

Museum stores its entomology collections in special specimen drawers.

The scientific study of insects, and (informal) of other arthropods (and occasionally other invertebrates).
Entomology is an important field of study within biology.

Usage notes edit

Not to be confused with etymology.

Synonyms edit

insectology (much less common)

Holonyms edit

zoology

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study of insects

Albanian: entomologji (sq)
Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَشَرَات (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥašarāt)
Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanutʻyun)
Asturian: entomoloxía f
Belarusian: энтамало́гія f (entamalóhija)
Breton: amprevanoniezh (br)
Bulgarian: ентомоло́гия f (entomológija)
Burmese: ကိမိလဗေဒ (my) (ki.mi.la.beda.)
Catalan: entomologia f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (kwan¹ cung⁴ hok⁶)

Hokkien: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (khun-thiông-ha̍k)

Mandarin: 昆蟲學／昆虫学 (zh) (kūnchóngxué)
Czech: entomologie (cs) f
Danish: entomologi (da) c, insektlære
Dutch: entomologie (nl) f, insectenkunde f
Esperanto: entomologio, insektologio
Estonian: entomoloogia, putukateadus
Finnish: hyönteistiede (fi)
French: entomologie (fr) f, insectologie (fr) f
Galician: entomoloxía (gl) f
Georgian: ენტომოლოგია (enṭomologia)
German: Entomologie (de) f, Insektologie f, Insektenkunde (de) f
Gujarati: કીટવિજ્ઞાન (kīṭvijñān)
Hawaiian: kālaiʻelala
Hebrew: אֶנְטוֹמוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (entomológya)
Hindi: कीटविज्ञान m (kīṭvijñān)
Hungarian: entomológia (hu), rovartan (hu)
Icelandic: skordýrafræði (is) f
Ido: entomologio (io)
Indonesian: entomologi (id)
Irish: feithideolaíocht f
Italian: entomologia (it) f
Japanese: 昆虫学 (ja) (こんちゅうがく, konchūgaku)
Kannada: ಕೀಟಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (kīṭaśāstra), ಪೂಚಿಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (pūciyarime)
Kazakh: энтомология (éntomologiä)
Korean: 곤충학(昆蟲學) (ko) (gonchunghak)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kêziknasî (ku) f, entomolojî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: энтомология (entomologiya)
Lao: ກີຕະວິທະຍາ (kī ta wi tha nyā)
Latvian: entomoloģija f
Lithuanian: entomologija
Macedonian: ентомоло́гија f (entomológija)
Malay: entomologi (ms), kaji serangga
Malayalam: കീടശാസ്ത്രം (kīṭaśāstraṁ), ഷഡ്പദശാസ്ത്രം (ṣaḍpadaśāstraṁ)
Maltese: entomoloġija f
Marathi: कीटकशास्त्र (kīṭakśāstra)
Mongolian: шавьж судлал (šavʹž sudlal)
Northern Thai: ᨠᩦᨭᩅᩥᨴ᩠ᨿᩣ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: entomologi (no) m

Nynorsk: entomologi m
Persian: حشره‌شناسی (hašare-šenâsi)
Polish: entomologia (pl) f, owadoznawstwo (pl)
Portuguese: entomologia (pt) f
Romanian: entomologie (ro)
Russian: энтомоло́гия (ru) f (entomológija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ентомологија f

Roman: entomologija (sh) f
Slovak: entomológia (sk) f
Slovene: entomologija (sl) f, žužkoslóvje
Spanish: entomología (es) f
Swedish: entomologi (sv) c
Tagalog: entomolohiya, dalubkulisapan
Tajik: ҳашаротшиносӣ (hašarotšinosī)
Tamil: பூச்சியியல் (ta) (pūcciyiyal)
Thai: กีฏวิทยา (th) (gii-dtà-wít-tá-yaa)
Turkish: entomoloji (tr), böcekbilim (tr)
Ukrainian: ентомоло́гія f (entomolóhija)
Uzbek: entomologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: côn trùng học (昆蟲學)
Volapük: näsäkav (vo), (obsolete) sökav