entomologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English entomology

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English entomologist

From entomology + -ist.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

entomologist (plural entomologists)

1. A scientist who studies insects.

   The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.

   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 458:

     He kindly offered me a room during my stay in Amboyna, and introduced me to his junior, Dr. Doleschall, a Hungarian and also an entomologist.

   • 1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:

     DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.

   • 2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:

     Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”

   • 2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 July 2023:

     An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.

   • 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 March 2025:

     The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.

Synonyms

• insectologer
• insectologist

Derived terms

• medical entomologist
• nonentomologist
• palaeoentomologist

Related terms

• entomologic
• entomological
• entomologically
• entomology

Translations

scientist who studies insects

• Armenian: միջատաբան (hy) (miǰataban)
• Asturian: entomólogu m, entomóloga f
• Belarusian: энтамо́лаг m (entamólah)
• Catalan: entomòleg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昆蟲學家 / 昆虫学家 (zh) (kūnchóngxuéjiā)

• Czech: entomolog (cs) m
• Danish: entomolog c
• Dutch: entomoloog (nl) m, entomologe (nl) f, insectenkenner m
• Esperanto: entomologo, insektologo
• Finnish: hyönteistutkija
• French: entomologiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: entomólogo m, entomóloga f
• German: Entomologe (de) m, Entomologin (de) f, Insektenwissenschaftler m, Insektenwissenschaftlerin f
• Hungarian: entomológus (hu), rovartudós
• Irish: feithideolaí m
• Italian: entomologo (it)
• Japanese: 昆虫学者 (ja) (こんちゅうがくしゃ, konchūgakusha)
• Latin: entomologus m, entomologa f
• Latvian: entomologs m, entomoloģe f
• Lithuanian: entomologas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: entomolog (no) m

  Nynorsk: entomolog (nn) m

• Polish: entomolog (pl) m or f, entomolożka (pl) f, owadoznawca (pl) m, owadoznawczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: entomologista (pt), entomólogo (pt) m
• Romanian: entomolog (ro) m, entomologist (ro) m
• Russian: энтомо́лог (ru) m (entomólog), инсекто́лог (ru) m (insektólog)
• Slovak: entomológ (sk) m, entomologička (sk) f
• Spanish: entomólogo (es) m, entomóloga f
• Swedish: entomolog (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubkulisap
• Turkish: böcekbilimci (tr), entomolog, entomolojist (tr)
• Ukrainian: ентомо́лог m (entomóloh)
• Vietnamese: nhà côn trùng học
• Volapük: näsäkavan (vo)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French entomologiste.

Noun

entomologist m (plural entomologiști)

1. entomologist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	entomologist	entomologistul	entomologiști	entomologiștii
genitive-dative	entomologist	entomologistului	entomologiști	entomologiștilor
vocative	entomologistule		entomologiștilor