ethology

English

Etymology

From the Latin ēthologia (“the art of depicting or imitating character”), from the Ancient Greek ἠθολογία (ēthología, “painting of character, especially by mimic gestures”), from ἠθολόγος (ēthológos, “painting character by mimic gestures”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character”, especially “moral character”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /iːˈθɒlədʒi/

Noun

ethology (countable and uncountable, plural ethologies)

1. (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.
2. (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

Related terms

• ethologist

Translations

study of human and animal behaviour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: etologie (cs) f
• Danish: etologi (da) c
• Finnish: käyttäytymistiede; (study of animal behaviour) eläinpsykologia, etologia
• French: éthologie (fr)
• Greek: ηθολογία (el) f (ithología), εθολογία (el) f (ethología)
• Hungarian: etológia (hu)
• Icelandic: atferlisfræði f, hátternisfræði f
• Ido: etologio (io)

• Irish: eiteolaíocht f
• Italian: etologia (it) f
• Latin: ēthologia f
• Malay: kaji tingkah laku, etologi
• Novial: etologia
• Portuguese: etologia (pt) f
• Romanian: etologie (ro) f
• Russian: этоло́гия (ru) f (etológija)
• Spanish: etología (es) f

See also

• ethnology

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• theology