meteorology

English

Etymology

From French météorologie, from Ancient Greek μετέωρος (metéōros, “high in the sky”) + -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) +‎ -ology (“study of”) First attested in 1610.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtɪəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/

Noun

meteorology (countable and uncountable, plural meteorologies)

1. The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
2. The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:meteorology

Derived terms

• aeronautical meteorology
• agricultural meteorology
• agrometeorology
• applied meteorology
• astrometeorology
• biometeorology
• dynamic meteorology
• hydrometeorology
• macrometeorology
• mesometeorology
• meteorological
• micrometeorology
• physical meteorology
• radarmeteorology
• radar meteorology
• radio meteorology
• synoptic meteorology

Related terms

Related terms

• meteor
• meteoric
• meteorite
• meteoroid
• meteoroidal
• meteoritic
• meteoritics

Translations

science

• Afrikaans: weerkunde
• Albanian: meteorologjia
• Alemannic German: Wettrkunde
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّقْس‎ m (ʕilm aṭ-ṭaqs)
• Armenian: օդերեւութաբանություն (hy) (ōderewutʿabanutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: meteorologiya
• Basque: meteorologia (eu)
• Belarusian: метэаралогія f (mjetearalóhija)
• Bengali: আবহাওয়াবিদ্যা (abohaōẇabidda)
• Breton: meteorologiezh
• Bulgarian: метеорология f (meteorologija)
• Burmese: မိုးလေဝသပညာ (my) (mui:lewa.sa.pa.nya)
• Catalan: meteorologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣象學／气象学 (hei³ zoeng⁶ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 氣象學／气象学 (zh) (qìxiàngxué); 氣象／气象 (zh) (qìxiàng) (phenomenon)

  Min Nan: 氣象學／气象学 (khì-siōng-ha̍k)

• Czech: meteorologie (cs) f
• Danish: meteorologi (da) c
• Dutch: weerkunde (nl) f, meteorologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: meteorologio, meteologio
• Estonian: ilmastikuteadus, meteoroloogia
• Faroese: veðurfrøði f
• Finnish: meteorologia (fi), ilmatiede (fi), säätiede
• French: météorologie (fr) f
• Galician: meteoroloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: მეტეოროლოგია (meṭeorologia)
• German: Meteorologie (de) f, Wetterkunde f, Witterungslehre f
• Greek: μετεωρολογία (el) f (meteorología)
• Gujarati: હવામાનશાસ્ત્ર (havāmānśāstra), વાયુશાસ્ત્ર (vāyuśāstra)
• Hebrew: מטאורולוגיה‎ (he) f (meteorológya)
• Hindi: ऋतुविज्ञान (hi) (ŕtuvigyān)
• Hungarian: meteorológia (hu), légkörtan (hu), légtüneménytan
• Icelandic: veðurfræði (is) f
• Ido: meteorologio (io)
• Indonesian: meteorologi (id)
• Irish: meitéareolaíocht f
• Italian: meteorologia (it) f
• Japanese: 気象学 (ja) (きしょうがく, kishōgaku), 気象 (ja) (きしょう, kishō) (phenomenon)
• Kazakh: метеорология (meteorologiä)
• Khmer: នភាវិទ្យា (neaʔpʰie vityie), ឧតុវិទ្យា (uʔtoʔvityie)
• Korean: 기상학(氣象學) (ko) (gisanghak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meteorolojî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: метеорология (meteorologiya)
• Latvian: meteoroloģija f
• Limburgish: weerkunde
• Lithuanian: meteorologija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wederkunn

• Macedonian: метеорологија f (meteorologija)
• Malay: kaji cuaca (ms), meteorologi (ms)
• Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷവിജ്ഞാനം (antarīkṣavijñānaṁ)
• Maori: mātai huarere, mātai āhuarangi, mātai tirorangi
• Marathi: हवामानशास्त्र (havāmānśāstra)
• Mon: ကွက်မလ္ၚတ်ဗြဲကျာ
• Mongolian: цаг уурын судлал (cag uuryn sudlal)
• North Frisian: wääderkunde
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meteorologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: meteorologi m

• Persian: هواشناسی‎ (fa) (havâšenâsi)
• Polish: meteorologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: meteorologia (pt) f
• Quechua: mit'a yachay
• Romanian: meteorologie (ro) f
• Russian: метеороло́гия (ru) f (meteorológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoil-aimsir
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метеорологија f, временословље n

  Roman: meteorologija (sh) f, vremenoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: meteorológia (sk) f
• Slovene: vremenoslóvje (sl), meteorologija (sl) f
• Spanish: meteorología (es) f
• Swahili: meteorolojia
• Swedish: meteorologi (sv) c, väderlekslära (sv)
• Tagalog: meteorolohiya
• Tajik: ҳавошиносӣ (havošinosī)
• Tamil: வானிலையியல் (ta) (vāṉilaiyiyal)
• Thai: อุตุนิยมวิทยา
• Turkish: meteoroloji (tr)
• Turkmen: meteorologiýa
• Ukrainian: метеорологія f (meteorolohija)
• Uzbek: meteorologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: khí tượng học (vi) (氣象學)
• Walloon: meteorolodjeye
• Welsh: meteoroleg
• West Frisian: waarkunde
• Yiddish: מעטעאָראָלאָגיע‎ f (meteorologye)
• Zazaki: meteoroloci f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: Wettervorhersage (de) f
• Hungarian: időjóslás (hu)

See also

• aerology
• aeronomy
• weather forecasting