mateology

English edit

Etymology edit

Ancient Greek μάτη (mátē, “folly”) + λόγος (lógos, “discourse”): compare French matéologie.

Noun edit

mateology (uncountable)

(dated) A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.

Translations edit

vain discourse

German: Mataiologie (de) f, Matäologie (de) f
Portuguese: mateologia (pt) f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mateology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)