geologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English geology

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)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English geologist

From geology + -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒiˈɒlədʒɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/
• Hyphenation: geolo‧gist

Noun

geologist (plural geologists)

1. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.

Synonyms

• geologer, geologian (dated)

Derived terms

• aerogeologist
• astrogeologist
• biogeologist
• hydrogeologist
• microbiogeologist
• nongeologist
• paleogeologist
• petrogeologist
• photogeologist
• wellsite geologist

Translations

person whose occupation specializes in geology

• Arabic: جِيُولُوجِيّ m (jiyūlūjiyy)
• Armenian: երկրաբան (erkraban)
• Asturian: xeólogu m, xeóloga f
• Basque: geologo (eu)
• Belarusian: гео́лаг m (hjeólah)
• Bulgarian: геоло́г m (geológ), геоло́жка (bg) f (geolóžka)
• Catalan: geòleg m, geòloga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地質學家 / 地质学家 (zh) (dìzhíxuéjiā), 地質學者 / 地质学者 (dìzhíxuézhě)

• Czech: geolog (cs) m, geoložka (cs) f
• Danish: geolog (da) c
• Dutch: geoloog (nl) m, geologe (nl) f, aardkundige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: geologo (eo)
• Estonian: geoloog
• Finnish: geologi (fi)
• French: géologue (fr) m or f
• Galician: xeólogo (gl) m, xeóloga f
• Georgian: გეოლოგი (geologi)
• German: Geologe (de) m, Geologin (de) f
• Greek: γεωλόγος (el) m (geológos)
• Hebrew: גאולוג m (geológ), גאולוגית f (geologít)
• Hindi: भूवैज्ञानिक m (bhūvaijñānik)
• Hungarian: geológus (hu)
• Ido: geologo (io)
• Italian: geologo (it) m, geologa (it) f
• Japanese: 地質学者 (ja) (ちしつがくしゃ, chishitsugakusha)
• Korean: 지질학자(地質學者) (ko) (jijilhakja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زەویناس (zewînas)

• Latin: geologista f, geologistus m
• Latvian: ģeologs m, ģeoloģe f
• Macedonian: геоло́г m (geológ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geolog m

  Nynorsk: geolog (nn) m

• Occitan: geològ (oc) m
• Polish: geolog (pl) m or f, geolożka f (rare)
• Portuguese: geólogo (pt) m
• Romanian: geolog (ro) m
• Russian: гео́лог (ru) m (geólog) (male or female)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гео̀лог m, геологица f

  Latin: geòlog (sh) m, geologica f

• Slovak: geológ (sk) m, geologička (sk) f
• Slovene: geolog (sl) m, geologinja f
• Spanish: geólogo (es) m, geóloga (es) f
• Swahili: mwanajiolojia
• Swedish: geolog (sv) c
• Thai: นักธรณีวิทยา (nák-tɔɔ-rá-nii-wít-tá-yaa)
• Tibetan: ས་ཁམས་རག་པ་བ (sa khams rag pa ba), ས་གཤིས་རིག་པ་མཁས་པ (sa gshis rig pa mkhas pa), ས་གཤིས་དཔྱད་རིག་མཁས་པ (sa gshis dpyad rig mkhas pa)
• Turkish: jeolog (tr)
• Ukrainian: гео́лог m (heóloh), геологи́ня f (heolohýnja)
• Vietnamese: nhà địa chất
• Welsh: daearegwr (cy) m, daearegwres f
• Yiddish: געאָלאָג m (geolog), געאָלאָגין f (geologin)

References

• geologist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• egologist, googliest