ichthyologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ichthyology

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 ichthyologist

From ichthyology + -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ichthyologist (plural ichthyologists)

1. An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.]
   • 2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don’t come any bigger”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

     Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other.

Derived terms

• palaeoichthyologist
• paleoichthyologist

Translations

expert in ichthyology

• Armenian: ձկնաբան (hy) (jknaban)
• Asturian: ictiólogu m
• Catalan: ictiòleg m, ictiòloga f
• Esperanto: iĥtiologo, iktiologo
• Finnish: iktyologi (fi)
• French: ichthyologue (fr) m or f, ichtyologue (fr) m or f
• Galician: ictiólogo (gl) m
• German: Ichthyologe (de) m, Ichthyologin (de) f, Fischkundler (de) m, Fischkundlerin (de) f
• Icelandic: fiskifræðingur m
• Italian: ittiologo m, ittiologa (it) f
• Macedonian: ихтиоло́г m (ihtiológ)
• Occitan: ictiològ m
• Polish: ichtiolog (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: ictiólogo (pt)
• Romanian: ihtiolog (ro) m, ihtiologă (ro) f
• Russian: ихтио́лог (ru) m (ixtiólog)
• Spanish: ictiólogo m
• Swedish: iktyolog (sv) c
• Turkish: ihtiyolog
• Volapük: (♂♀) fitavan, (♂) hifitavan, (♀) jifitavan