mineralogy

English

Alternative forms

• minerology (rare)

Etymology

From New Latin minerālogia, from Medieval Latin minera (“mineral”) + Latin -logia (“study”). By surface analysis, mineral +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈralədʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/, /ˌmɪnəˈɹæləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

mineralogy (countable and uncountable, plural mineralogies)

2. (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals.

   Meronym: gemmology

3. Mineral materials.
4. A treatise on mineralogy.

Derived terms

• biomineralogy
• micromineralogy
• mineralogic
• mineralogical
• mineralogize
• soil mineralogy

Related terms

• mineralogist

Translations

the study or science of minerals

• Afrikaans: mineralogie (af), delfstofkunde
• Armenian: հանքաբանություն (hy) (hankʻabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: mineraloxía f
• Azerbaijani: mineralogiya
• Basque: mineralogia (eu)
• Belarusian: мінерало́гія f (minjeralóhija)
• Breton: maenoniezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: минерало́гия f (mineralógija)
• Burmese: သတ္တုဗေဒ (my) (sattu.beda.)
• Catalan: mineralogia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 礦物學 / 矿物学 (kwong³ mat⁶ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 礦物學 / 矿物学 (khòng-bu̍t-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 礦物學 / 矿物学 (zh) (kuàngwù xué)

• Czech: mineralogie (cs) f
• Danish: mineralogi (da)
• Dutch: mineralogie (nl) f
• Esperanto: mineralogio
• Estonian: mineraloogia
• Faroese: steinafrøði f
• Finnish: mineralogia (fi)
• French: minéralogie (fr) f
• Galician: mineraloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Mineralogie (de) f
• Greek: ορυκτολογία (el) f (oryktología)
• Hebrew: מינרלוגיה (he) f (mineralogya)
• Hungarian: ásványtan (hu), mineralógia (hu)
• Icelandic: steindafræði
• Ido: mineralogio (io)
• Indonesian: mineralogi (id)
• Interlingua: mineralogia
• Irish: mianreolaíocht f
• Italian: mineralogia (it) f
• Japanese: 鉱物学 (ja) (こうぶつがく, kōbutsugaku)
• Kazakh: минералогия (mineralogiä)
• Korean: 광물학(鑛物學) (ko) (gwangmulhak)
• Kyrgyz: минералогия (mineralogiya)
• Latvian: mineraloģija
• Lithuanian: mineralogija f
• Luxembourgish: mineralogie
• Malayalam: ധാതുവിജ്ഞാനീയം (ml) (dhātuvijñānīyaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mineralogi m

  Nynorsk: mineralogi m

• Persian: کانی‌شناسی (kâni-šenâsi)
• Polish: mineralogia (pl) f
• Portuguese: mineralogia (pt) f
• Romanian: mineralogie (ro) f
• Russian: минерало́гия (ru) f (mineralógija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: минералогија f

  Roman: mineralogija (sh) f

• Slovak: mineralógia (sk) f
• Slovene: mineralogija (sl) f
• Spanish: mineralogía (es) f
• Swedish: mineralogi (sv) c
• Tagalog: lupangkapan
• Telugu: ఖనిజశాస్త్రము (khanijaśāstramu)
• Turkish: mineraloji (tr)
• Udmurt: муизтодос (muiztodos)
• Ukrainian: мінерало́гія f (mineralóhija)
• Vietnamese: khoáng vật học (vi) (礦物學)
• Volapük: minav (vo)

See also

• gemology
• Category:en:Mineralogy
• petrography