terminology

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

From Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ology (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logy, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌtɚməˈnɒləd͡ʒi/, X-SAMPA: /%t@`m@"nQl@dZi/
• (US) IPA: /ˌtɚməˈnɑləd͡ʒi/, X-SAMPA: /%t@`m@"nAl@dZi/

Noun

terminology (plural terminologies)

1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
2. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
   • 1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language:

     Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.

Synonyms

• nomenclature, vocabulary, language, wording, phraseology, jargon, lingo, -ese

Derived terms

• terminological
• terminologically
• terminologist

Related terms

• argot
• jargon
• terminism
• terminist

Translations

doctrine of terms

• Catalan: terminologia (ca) f
• Esperanto: terminologio (eo)
• Finnish: terminologia (fi)
• German: Terminologie (de) f
• Khmer: យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (km) (yeatta’sap viccie)
• Norwegian: terminologi (no) m
• Portuguese: terminologia (pt) f

• Romanian: terminologie (ro)
• Russian: терминология (ru) (terminológija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: terminològija (sh) f, nàzivoslōvlje (sh) n
• Spanish: terminología (es)
• Swedish: terminologi (sv) c

terms used in any business, art, etc

• Arabic: مصطلح (ar) (muSTalaH) m
• Catalan: terminologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用語 (cmn), 用语 (cmn) (yòngyǔ), 術語 (cmn), 术语 (cmn) (shùyǔ)

• Czech: názvosloví (cs) n, terminologie (cs) f
• Finnish: termistö (fi)
• French: terminologie (fr) f
• German: Terminologie (de) f, Fachsprache (de) f
• Japanese: 用語 (ja) (ようご, yōgo), 専門語 (ja) (せんもんご, semmongo), 術語 (ja) (じゅつご, jutsugo)

• Khmer: យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (km) (yeatta’sap viccie), បច្ចេកសព្ទ (km) (pacceeka’ sap), យត្តស័ព្ទ (km) (yeatta’sap)
• Norwegian: terminologi (no) m
• Persian: اصطلاح (fa)
• Portuguese: terminologia (pt) f
• Romanian: terminologie (ro) f
• Russian: терминология (ru) (terminológija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: terminològija (sh) f, názīvlje (sh) n
• Spanish: terminología (es)
• Swedish: terminologi (sv) c
• Tajik: истилоҳ (tg) (istiloh)

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Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: terminologija (lt) f (1); terminija (lt) f (2)

External links

• terminology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• terminology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911