entomology

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛntəˈmɒlədʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

entomology (uncountable)

Museum stores its entomology collections in special specimen drawers.

2. 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

• Not to be confused with etymology.

Synonyms

• insectology (much less common)

Holonyms

• zoology

Derived terms

• entomologic
• entomological
• entomologically
• entomologist
• entomologize
• ethnoentomology
• Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology
• medical entomology
• palaeoentomology
• paleoentomology
• radioentomology

Related terms

• entomo-
• entomofauna
• entomofaunal
• entomophagous
• entomophagy
• entomophilous
• entomophily

Translations

study of insects

• Albanian: entomologji (sq)
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَشَرَات (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥašarāt)
• Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: entomoloxía (ast) 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)
• Latin: entomologia (la) f
• 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 (hašarotšinosi)
• 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

See also

• acarology (study of mites and ticks)
• apiology (study of bees)
• arachnology (study of arachnids)
• arthropodology (study of arthropods)
• coleopterology (study of beetles)
• dipterology (study of flies)
• hemipterology (study of true bugs)
• lepidopterology (study of moths and butterflies)
• melittology (study of bees)
• myrmecology (study of ants)
• orthopterology (study of grasshoppers, crickets, etc.)
• trichopterology (study of caddis flies)
• zoology (study of animals)

Similarly named but unrelated fields

• ethnology
• ethology
• etiology, aetiology
• etymology