petrology

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WOTD – 23 February 2012

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā)bor.

Latin petrader.

English petro-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English petrology

From petro- + -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈtɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɹɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

petrology (usually uncountable, plural petrologies)

1. (geology) The study of the origin, composition and structure of rock.

Meronyms

• mineralogy

Derived terms

• petrologic
• petrological

Related terms

• petrography
• petrologist

Translations

the study of rock

• Albanian: petrologjí f, petrologjía f
• Bashkir: петрология (pitrulugiya)
• Catalan: petrologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 岩石學 / 岩石学 (zh) (yánshíxué)

• Danish: petrologi (da) c
• Dutch: steenkunde f
• Finnish: petrologia (fi)
• French: pétrologie (fr) f
• Galician: petroloxía f
• German: Petrologie f, Gesteinskunde f
• Italian: petrologia (it) f
• Japanese: 岩石学 (ja) (がんせきがく, gansekigaku)
• Kazakh: петрология (petrologıya)
• Kyrgyz: петрология (petrologiya)
• Malayalam: ശിലാവിജ്ഞാനം (śilāvijñānaṁ)
• Norwegian: petrologi m
• Portuguese: petrologia f
• Romanian: petrologie (ro) f
• Spanish: petrología (es) f
• Swahili: petrolojia
• Tagalog: dalubbatuhan
• Tamil: பாறையியல் (ta) (pāṟaiyiyal)
• Vietnamese: thạch luận

Anagrams

• pterology, reptology