paleontology

Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• palæontology (chiefly British)
• palaeontology (British)

Etymology

paleo- (“ancient”) + onto- (“being”) + -logy (“study”)

Noun

paleontology (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• micropaleontology
• paleontologic
• paleontological
• paleontologist

Translations

study of prehistoric forms of life

• Armenian: հնէաբանություն (hy) (hnēabanut'yun)
• Asturian: paleontoloxía (ast) f
• Catalan: paleontologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古生物學 (cmn), 古生物学 (cmn) (gǔshēngwùxué)

• Czech: paleontologie (cs) f
• Finnish: paleontologia (fi)
• French: paléontologie (fr) f
• Galician: paleontoloxía (gl) f
• German: Paläontologie (de) f
• Greek: παλαιοντολογία (el) (paleontología)
• Icelandic: steingervingafræði (is) f
• Italian: paleontologia (it) f
• Japanese: 古生物学 (ja) (こせいぶつがく, koseibutsugaku)

• Khmer: បាសាណិភូតវិទ្យា (km) (baasaanə pʰuut vityie)
• Latvian: paleontoloģija (lv) f
• Macedonian: палеонтологија (mk) (paleontológija) f
• Malay: kaji fosil (ms), paleontologi (ms)
• Norwegian: paleontologi (no)
• Occitan: paleontologia (oc) f
• Polish: paleontologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: paleontologia (pt) f
• Romanian: paleontologie (ro) f
• Russian: палеонтология (ru) (paleontológija) f
• Spanish: paleontología (es) f
• Swedish: paleontologi (sv) c
• Volapük: fösilav (vo)