entomology

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Wikipedia entomology (uncountable) (most common term)

1. The scientific study of insects.

   Entomology is an important field of study within biology.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with etymology.

Synonyms

• (much less common term) insectology

Derived terms

• entomologic
• entomological
• entomologically
• entomologist

Related terms

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

Translations

study of insects

• Albanian: entomologji (sq)
• Arabic: علم الحشرات (ar) (ʿilm al-ḥašarāt) m
• Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanut’yun) 
• Belarusian: энтамалогія (be) (entamalóhija) f 
• Bulgarian: ентомология (bg) (entomológija) f 
• Catalan: entomologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昆蟲學 (cmn), 昆虫学 (cmn) (kūnchóngxué)

• Czech: entomologie (cs) f
• Danish: entomologi (da) c
• Dutch: entomologie (nl)
• Esperanto: entomologio (eo), insektologio (eo)
• Estonian: entomoloogia (et)
• Finnish: hyönteistiede (fi)
• French: entomologie (fr) f, insectologie (fr) f
• Galician: entomoloxía (gl) f
• German: Entomologie (de) f, Insektologie (de) f, Insektenkunde (de) f
• Hebrew: אֶנְטוֹמוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) (entomológya) f
• Hindi: कीटविज्ञान (hi) (kīṭavigyān) m
• Hungarian: entomológia (hu)
• Icelandic: skordýrafræði (is) f
• Ido: entomologio (io)
• Irish: feithideolaíocht (ga) f
• Italian: entomologia (it) f
• Japanese: 昆虫学 (ja) (こんちゅうがく, konchūgaku)
• Korean: 곤충학 (ko) (gonchunghak) (昆蟲學 (ko))

• Lao: ກີຕະວິທະຍາ (lo) (ki ta vithanya)
• Latvian: entomoloģija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: entomologija (lt)
• Macedonian: ентомологија (mk) (entomológija) f
• Malay: entomologi (ms), kaji serangga (ms)
• Maltese: entomoloġija (mt) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: entomologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: entomologi (nn) m

• Persian: حشره‌شناسی (fa) (hašare-šenâsi)
• Polish: entomologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: entomologia (pt) f
• Romanian: entomologie (ro)
• Russian: энтомология (ru) (entomológija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ентомологија (sh) f

  Roman: entomologija (sh) f

• Slovak: entomológia (sk) f
• Slovene: entomologija (sl) f
• Spanish: entomología (es) f
• Swedish: entomologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: entomolohiya (tl)
• Turkish: entomoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: ентомологія (uk) (entomolóhija) f 
• Vietnamese: côn trùng học (vi) (昆蟲學 (vi))
• Volapük: näsäkav (vo), (obsolete) sökav (vo)

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)