meteorology

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετεωρολογία (meteōrología), from μετέωρα (metéōra, “celestial phenomena”), nominalized from the neuter plural of μετέωρος (metéōros, “high in the sky”), + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) +‎ -ology (“study of”). First attested in 1563.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtɪəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

meteorology (countable and uncountable, plural meteorologies)

1. The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.

   study of meteorology

   department of meteorology

   She’s studying meteorology at university.

   Meteorology helps us understand weather patterns and climate change.

2. The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.

   meteorology report

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:meteorology

Meronyms

• atmospheric chemistry
• atmospheric physics

Holonyms

• atmospheric science

Derived terms

• aeronautical meteorology
• agricultural meteorology
• agrometeorology
• applied meteorology
• astrometeorology
• biometeorology
• dynamic meteorology
• glaciometeorology
• hydrometeorology
• macrometeorology
• mesometeorology
• meteorologic
• meteorological
• meteorologist
• micrometeorology
• physical meteorology
• radar meteorology
• radarmeteorology
• radio meteorology
• synoptic meteorology

Related terms

• meteor
• meteoric
• meteorite
• meteoritic
• meteoritics
• meteoroid
• meteoroidal

Translations

science

• Afrikaans: weerkunde
• Albanian: meteorologjia
• Alemannic German: Wettrkunde
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّقْس m (ʕilm aṭ-ṭaqs)
• Armenian: օդերեւութաբանություն (hy) (ōderewutʻabanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: meteorologiya
• Basque: meteorologia (eu)
• Belarusian: метэаралогія f (mjetearalóhija)
• Bengali: আবহাওয়াবিদ্যা (bn) (abohaōẇabidda)
• Breton: meteorologiezh
• Bulgarian: метеорология f (meteorologija)
• Burmese: မိုးလေဝသပညာ (my) (mui:lewa.sa.pa.nya)
• Catalan: meteorologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣象學 / 气象学 (hei³ zoeng⁶ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 氣象學 / 气象学 (khì-siōng-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 氣象學 / 气象学 (zh) (qìxiàngxué); 氣象 / 气象 (zh) (qìxiàng) (phenomenon)

• Cornish: keweronieth f
• Czech: meteorologie (cs) f
• Danish: meteorologi (da) c
• Dutch: weerkunde (nl) f, meteorologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: meteorologio, meteologio
• Estonian: ilmastikuteadus, meteoroloogia
• Faroese: veðurfrøði f
• Finnish: meteorologia (fi), ilmatiede (fi), säätiede
• French: météorologie (fr) f
• Galician: meteoroloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: მეტეოროლოგია (meṭeorologia)
• German: Meteorologie (de) f, Wetterkunde f, Witterungslehre f
• Greek: μετεωρολογία (el) f (meteorología)
• Gujarati: હવામાનશાસ્ત્ર (havāmānśāstra), વાયુશાસ્ત્ર (vāyuśāstra)
• Hebrew: מטאורולוגיה (he) f (meteorológya)
• Hindi: ऋतुविज्ञान (hi) m (ŕtuvijñān), मौसम विज्ञान m (mausam vijñān)
• Hungarian: meteorológia (hu), légkörtan (hu), légtüneménytan
• Icelandic: veðurfræði (is) f
• Ido: meteorologio (io)
• Indonesian: meteorologi (id)
• Irish: meitéareolaíocht f
• Italian: meteorologia (it) f
• Japanese: 気象学 (ja) (きしょうがく, kishōgaku), 気象 (ja) (きしょう, kishō) (phenomenon)
• Kazakh: метеорология (meteorologiä)
• Khmer: នភាវិទ្យា (neaʔpʰie vityie), ឧតុវិទ្យា (uʔtoʔvityie)
• Korean: 기상학(氣象學) (ko) (gisanghak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meteorolojî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: метеорология (ky) (meteorologiya)
• Latvian: meteoroloģija f
• Limburgish: weerkunde
• Lithuanian: meteorologija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wederkunn

• Macedonian: метеорологија f (meteorologija)
• Malay: kaji cuaca (ms), meteorologi (ms)
• Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷവിജ്ഞാനം (antarīkṣavijñānaṁ)
• Maori: tirorangi, mātai tirorangi, mātai āhuarangi, mātai huarere
• Marathi: हवामानशास्त्र (havāmānśāstra)
• Mon: ကွက်မလ္ၚတ်ဗြဲကျာ
• Mongolian: цаг уурын судлал (cag uuryn sudlal)
• North Frisian: wääderkunde
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: meteorologi (no) m

  Nynorsk: meteorologi m

• Persian: هواشناسی (fa) (havâšenâsi)
• Polish: meteorologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: meteorologia (pt) f
• Quechua: mit'a yachay
• Romanian: meteorologie (ro) f
• Russian: метеороло́гия (ru) f (meteorológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgoil-aimsir
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метеорологија f, временословље n

  Roman: meteorologija (sh) f, vremenoslovlje (sh) n

• Slovak: meteorológia (sk) f
• Slovene: vremenoslóvje (sl), meteorologija (sl) f
• Spanish: meteorología (es) f
• Swahili: metorolojia
• Swedish: meteorologi (sv) c, väderlekslära (sv)
• Tagalog: meteorolohiya
• Tajik: ҳавошиносӣ (havošinosi)
• Tamil: வானிலையியல் (ta) (vāṉilaiyiyal)
• Thai: อุตุนิยมวิทยา
• Turkish: meteoroloji (tr)
• Turkmen: meteorologiýa
• Ukrainian: метеорологія f (meteorolohija)
• Uzbek: meteorologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: khí tượng học (vi) (氣象學)
• Walloon: meteorolodjeye
• Welsh: meteoroleg
• West Frisian: waarkunde
• Yiddish: מעטעאָראָלאָגיע f (meteorologye)
• Zazaki: meteoroloci f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: Wettervorhersage (de) f
• Hungarian: időjóslás (hu)

See also

• aerology
• aeronomy
• weather forecasting