entomology

English

entomology (L32584)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɛntəˈmɒlədʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: en‧to‧mo‧lo‧gy
Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

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entomology

Wikipedia

entomology (uncountable)

The scientific study of insects, and (informal) of other arthropods (and occasionally other invertebrates).
Synonym: insectology (much less common)

Holonym: zoology

Entomology is an important field of study within biology.
- 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with etymology.

Derived terms

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Translations

study of insects

Albanian: entomologji (sq)
Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَشَرَات (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥašarāt)
Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanutʻyun)
Asturian: entomoloxía (ast) f
Belarusian: энтамало́гія f (entamalóhija)
Breton: amprevanoniezh (br)
Bulgarian: ентомоло́гия f (entomológija)
Burmese: ကိမိလဗေဒ (my) (ki.mi.la.beda.)
Catalan: entomologia f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (kwan¹ cung⁴ hok⁶)

Hokkien: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (khun-thiông-ha̍k)

Mandarin: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (zh) (kūnchóngxué)
Czech: entomologie (cs) f
Danish: entomologi (da) c, insektlære
Dutch: entomologie (nl) f, insectenkunde (nl) f
Esperanto: entomologio, insektologio
Estonian: entomoloogia, putukateadus
Finnish: hyönteistiede (fi)
French: entomologie (fr) f, insectologie (fr) f
Galician: entomoloxía (gl) f
Georgian: ენტომოლოგია (enṭomologia)
German: Entomologie (de) f, Insektologie f, Insektenkunde (de) f
Greek: εντομολογία (el) f (entomología)
Gujarati: કીટવિજ્ઞાન (kīṭvijñān)
Hawaiian: kālaiʻelala
Hebrew: אֶנְטוֹמוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (entomológya)
Hindi: कीटविज्ञान m (kīṭvijñān)
Hungarian: entomológia (hu), rovartan (hu)
Icelandic: skordýrafræði (is) f
Ido: entomologio (io)
Indonesian: entomologi (id)
Irish: feithideolaíocht f
Italian: entomologia (it) f
Japanese: 昆虫学 (ja) (こんちゅうがく, konchūgaku)
Kannada: ಕೀಟಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (kīṭaśāstra), ಪೂಚಿಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (pūciyarime)
Kazakh: энтомология (èntomologıya)
Korean: 곤충학(昆蟲學) (ko) (gonchunghak)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kêziknasî (ku) f, entomolojî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: энтомология (entomologiya)
Lao: ກີຕະວິທະຍາ (kī ta wi tha nyā)
Latin: entomologia (la) f
Latvian: entomoloģija f
Lithuanian: entomologija
Macedonian: ентомоло́гија f (entomológija)
Malay: entomologi (ms), kaji serangga
Malayalam: കീടശാസ്ത്രം (kīṭaśāstraṁ), ഷഡ്പദശാസ്ത്രം (ṣaḍpadaśāstraṁ)
Maltese: entomoloġija f
Marathi: कीटकशास्त्र (kīṭakśāstra)
Mongolian: шавьж судлал (šavʹž sudlal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: entomologi (no) m

Nynorsk: entomologi m
Persian: حشره‌شناسی (hašare-šenâsi)
Polish: entomologia (pl) f, owadoznawstwo (pl)
Portuguese: entomologia (pt) f
Romanian: entomologie (ro)
Russian: энтомоло́гия (ru) f (entomológija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ентомологија f

Latin: entomologija (sh) f
Slovak: entomológia (sk) f
Slovene: entomologija (sl) f, žužkoslóvje
Spanish: entomología (es) f
Swedish: entomologi (sv) c
Tagalog: entomolohiya, dalubkulisapan
Tajik: ҳашаротшиносӣ (hašarotšinosi)
Tamil: பூச்சியியல் (ta) (pūcciyiyal)
Thai: กีฏวิทยา (th) (gii-dtà-wít-tá-yaa)
Northern Thai: ᨠᩦᨭᩅᩥᨴ᩠ᨿᩣ
Turkish: entomoloji (tr), böcekbilim (tr)
Ukrainian: ентомоло́гія f (entomolóhija)
Urdu: حَشَرِیّات f (haśarīyāt)
Uzbek: entomologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: côn trùng học (昆蟲學)
Volapük: näsäkav (vo), (obsolete) sökav