paleontology

English

Alternative forms

palæontology (chiefly British)
palaeontology (British)

Etymology

From French paléontologie. Surface etymology is paleo- (“ancient”) +‎ onto- (“being”) +‎ -logy (“study”).

Noun

paleontology (uncountable)

Study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.

Hypernyms

humanities

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

study of prehistoric forms of life

Armenian: հնէաբանություն (hy) (hnēabanutʿyun)
Asturian: paleontoloxía f
Burmese: နိခါတကဗေဒ (my) (ni.hkata.ka.beda.)
Catalan: paleontologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 古生物學 (zh), 古生物学 (zh) (gǔshēngwùxué)
Czech: paleontologie (cs) f
Danish: palæontologi (da) c
Finnish: paleontologia (fi)
French: paléontologie (fr) f
Galician: paleontoloxía f
German: Paläontologie (de) f
Greek: παλαιοντολογία (el) (palaiontología)
Icelandic: steingervingafræði f
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)
Latvian: paleontoloģija f

Lithuanian: paleontologija f
Macedonian: палеонтологија f (paleontológija)
Malay: kaji fosil, paleontologi
Maori: mātai mātātoka
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
Swedish: paleontologi (sv) c
Thai: บรรพชีวินวิทยา (ban-pá-chii-win-wít-tá-yaa)
Vietnamese: cổ sinh vật học
Volapük: fösilav (vo)
Yiddish: פּאַלעאָנטאָלאָגיע‎ f (paleontologye)

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