meteorological

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Etymology

Etymology tree

English meteorology

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ic

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

Middle English -ical

English -ical

English meteorological

From meteorology + -ical.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmitiəɹəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtɪəɹəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: me‧te‧o‧ro‧lo‧gi‧cal

Adjective

meteorological (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to meteorology.

   The trip was postponed because the meteorological conditions were so bad.

   • 2017 June 13, Stephen Moss, “June likes to throw a curveball now and again”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 February 2018:

     But from time to time, June throws up a curveball, in the shape of unusual and hard to predict meteorological events.

Synonyms

• meteorologic (less common)

Derived terms

• agrometeorological
• astrometeorological
• biometeorological
• hydrometeorological
• mesometeorological
• meteorological bomb
• meteorologically
• meteorological station
• meteotsunami
• micrometeorological
• nonmeteorological
• radarmeteorological
• unmeteorological

Translations

relating to meteorology

• Armenian: օդերեւութաբանական (hy) (ōderewutʻabanakan)
• Catalan: meteorològic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣象學的 / 气象学的 (qìxiàngxuéde)

• Czech: meteorologický (cs)
• Dutch: meteorologisch (nl), weerkundig (nl)
• Finnish: meteorologinen (fi)
• French: météorologique (fr)
• Galician: meteorolóxico (gl)
• German: Wetter- (de), meteorologisch (de) (scientific)
• Greek: μετεωρολογικός (meteorologikós)
• Hebrew: מטאורולוגי (mete'orológi)
• Irish: meitéareolaíoch
• Italian: meteorologico (it)
• Kazakh: метеорологиялық (meteorologıyalıq)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meteorologisk

  Nynorsk: meteorologisk

• Polish: meteorologiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: meteorológico (pt)
• Romanian: meteorologic (ro)
• Russian: метеорологи́ческий (ru) (meteorologíčeskij)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: meteorologiski

  Upper Sorbian: meteorologiski

• Spanish: meteorológico (es)
• Swedish: meteorologisk (sv)
• Turkish: meteorolojik (tr)
• Welsh: meteorolegol