entomology

English

Etymology

From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy”)), equivalent to entomo- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɛntəˈmɒlədʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: en‧to‧mo‧lo‧gy
Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

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entomology

Wikipedia

entomology (uncountable)

The scientific study of insects, and (informal) of other arthropods (and occasionally other invertebrates).
Entomology is an important field of study within biology.
- 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with etymology.

Synonyms

insectology (much less common)

Holonyms

zoology

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

study of insects

Albanian: entomologji (sq)
Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَشَرَات (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥašarāt)
Armenian: միջատաբանություն (hy) (miǰatabanutʻyun)
Asturian: entomoloxía (ast) f
Belarusian: энтамало́гія f (entamalóhija)
Breton: amprevanoniezh (br)
Bulgarian: ентомоло́гия f (entomológija)
Burmese: ကိမိလဗေဒ (my) (ki.mi.la.beda.)
Catalan: entomologia f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (kwan¹ cung⁴ hok⁶)

Hokkien: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (khun-thiông-ha̍k)

Mandarin: 昆蟲學 / 昆虫学 (zh) (kūnchóngxué)
Czech: entomologie (cs) f
Danish: entomologi (da) c, insektlære
Dutch: entomologie (nl) f, insectenkunde f
Esperanto: entomologio, insektologio
Estonian: entomoloogia, putukateadus
Finnish: hyönteistiede (fi)
French: entomologie (fr) f, insectologie (fr) f
Galician: entomoloxía (gl) f
Georgian: ენტომოლოგია (enṭomologia)
German: Entomologie (de) f, Insektologie f, Insektenkunde (de) f
Greek: εντομολογία (el) f (entomología)
Gujarati: કીટવિજ્ઞાન (kīṭvijñān)
Hawaiian: kālaiʻelala
Hebrew: אֶנְטוֹמוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (entomológya)
Hindi: कीटविज्ञान m (kīṭvijñān)
Hungarian: entomológia (hu), rovartan (hu)
Icelandic: skordýrafræði (is) f
Ido: entomologio (io)
Indonesian: entomologi (id)
Irish: feithideolaíocht f
Italian: entomologia (it) f
Japanese: 昆虫学 (ja) (こんちゅうがく, konchūgaku)
Kannada: ಕೀಟಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (kīṭaśāstra), ಪೂಚಿಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (pūciyarime)
Kazakh: энтомология (éntomologiä)
Korean: 곤충학(昆蟲學) (ko) (gonchunghak)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kêziknasî (ku) f, entomolojî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: энтомология (entomologiya)
Lao: ກີຕະວິທະຍາ (kī ta wi tha nyā)
Latin: entomologia (la) f
Latvian: entomoloģija f
Lithuanian: entomologija
Macedonian: ентомоло́гија f (entomológija)
Malay: entomologi (ms), kaji serangga
Malayalam: കീടശാസ്ത്രം (kīṭaśāstraṁ), ഷഡ്പദശാസ്ത്രം (ṣaḍpadaśāstraṁ)
Maltese: entomoloġija f
Marathi: कीटकशास्त्र (kīṭakśāstra)
Mongolian: шавьж судлал (šavʹž sudlal)
Northern Thai: ᨠᩦᨭᩅᩥᨴ᩠ᨿᩣ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: entomologi (no) m

Nynorsk: entomologi m
Persian: حشره‌شناسی (hašare-šenâsi)
Polish: entomologia (pl) f, owadoznawstwo (pl)
Portuguese: entomologia (pt) f
Romanian: entomologie (ro)
Russian: энтомоло́гия (ru) f (entomológija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ентомологија f

Roman: entomologija (sh) f
Slovak: entomológia (sk) f
Slovene: entomologija (sl) f, žužkoslóvje
Spanish: entomología (es) f
Swedish: entomologi (sv) c
Tagalog: entomolohiya, dalubkulisapan
Tajik: ҳашаротшиносӣ (hašarotšinosi)
Tamil: பூச்சியியல் (ta) (pūcciyiyal)
Thai: กีฏวิทยา (th) (gii-dtà-wít-tá-yaa)
Turkish: entomoloji (tr), böcekbilim (tr)
Ukrainian: ентомоло́гія f (entomolóhija)
Uzbek: entomologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: côn trùng học (昆蟲學)
Volapük: näsäkav (vo), (obsolete) sökav