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English
Etymology
From New Latin ornithologia, coined by Ulisse Aldrovandi from Ancient Greek ὀρνιθολόγος (ornithológos), from ὄρνις (órnis) and λόγος (lógos). See also ornitho- + -logy.
Pronunciation
Noun
ornithology (countable and uncountable, plural ornithologies)
- The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.
- Synonyms: birdlore, fowl-lore
1750, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick Fowls of All Kinds at Any Time of the Year:Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.
Derived terms
Translations
scientific study of birds
- Afrikaans: voëlkunde
- Albanian: ornitologji
- Arabic: عَلِمَ الطَائِر m (ʕalima ṭ-ṭāʔir), عَلِم الطُيُور m (ʕalim aṭ-ṭuyūr)
- Armenian: օրնիթոլոգիա (hy) (ōrnitʻologia), թռչնաբանություն (hy) (tʻṙčʻnabanutʻyun)
- Assamese: পক্ষীবিজ্ঞান (pokhibiggan)
- Asturian: ornitoloxía f
- Azerbaijani: ornitologiya
- Balinese: ᬧᬓ᭄ᬲᬶᬯᬶᬤ᭄ᬬ (paksiwidya)
- Bashkir: орнитоло́гия (ornitológiya)
- Basque: ornitologia (eu)
- Belarusian: арніталогія f (arnitalóhija)
- Bengali: পক্ষীবিজ্ঞান (pokkhibiggên)
- Breton: evnoniezh (br) f
- Bulgarian: орнитология f (ornitologija)
- Burmese: သကုဏဗေဒ (sa.ku.na.beda.)
- Catalan: ornitologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鳥類學/鸟类学 (niu5 leoi6 hok6)
- Hokkien: 鳥類學/鸟类学 (chiáu-lūi-ha̍k)
- Mandarin: 鳥類學/鸟类学 (zh) (niǎolèixué)
- Corsican: urnitulugia f, ornitologia f
- Czech: ornitologie (cs) f
- Danish: ornitologi (da) c
- Dutch: vogelkunde f, ornithologie (nl) f
- Esperanto: ornitologio
- Estonian: ornitoloogia (et), linnuteadus (et)
- Finnish: lintutiede (fi), ornitologia (fi)
- French: ornithologie (fr) f
- Galician: ornitoloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: ორნითოლოგია (ornitologia)
- German: Ornithologie (de) f, Vogelkunde (de) f
- Greek: ορνιθολογία (el) f (ornithología)
- Guaraní: guyrakuaaty
- Gujarati: પક્ષીવિદ્યા f (pakṣīvidyā)
- Hebrew: אוֹרְנִיתוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (ornitológya)
- Hindi: पक्षीविज्ञान (pakṣīvijñān)
- Hungarian: ornitológia (hu), madártan (hu)
- Icelandic: fuglafræði (is) f
- Ido: ornitologio (io)
- Indonesian: ornitologi (id)
- Interlingua: ornithologia
- Irish: éaneolaíocht f
- Italian: ornitologia (it) f
- Japanese: 鳥類学 (ja) (ちょうるいがく, chōruigaku)
- Kannada: ಹಕ್ಕಿಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (hakkiyarime), ಪಕ್ಷಿವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (kn) (pakṣivijñāna)
- Kazakh: құстану (qūstanu)
- Korean: 조류학(鳥類學) (joryuhak)
- Kyrgyz: орнитология (ornitologiya)
- Latin: ornithologia f
- Latvian: ornitoloģija f
- Lithuanian: ornitologija f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Ornithologie f
- Luxembourgish: Ornithologie f
- Macedonian: орнитологија f (ornitologija)
- Malay: kaji burung, ornitologi
- Malayalam: പക്ഷിശാസ്ത്രം (pakṣiśāstraṁ)
- Manx: eean-oaylleeaght f
- Maori: mātai manu
- Marathi: पक्षीशास्त्र (pakṣīśāstra)
- Mari:
- Western Mari: орнитологи (orńitologi)
- Mongolian: шувуу судлал (šuvuu sudlal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ornitologi (no) m
- Nynorsk: ornitologi m
- Occitan: ornitologia f
- Persian: پرندهشناسی (fa) (parande-šenâsi)
- Polish: ornitologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: ornitologia (pt) f
- Romanian: ornitologie (ro) f
- Russian: орнитоло́гия (ru) f (ornitológija)
- Scottish Gaelic: eun-eòlas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: орнитоло̀гија f
- Roman: ornitològija (sh) f
- Slovak: ornitológia (sk) f
- Slovene: ornitologija (sl) f
- Spanish: ornitología (es) f
- Swedish: ornitologi (sv) c
- Tagalog: dalub-ibunan, palaibunan, ornitolohiya
- Tamil: பறவையியல் (ta) (paṟavaiyiyal)
- Tatar: орнитология (ornitoloğiyä)
- Tetum: ornitolojia
- Thai: ปักษีวิทยา (pak-see-wit-ta-ya)
- Turkish: kuşbilim, ornitoloji (tr), kuş bilimi (tr)
- Ukrainian: орнітологія (uk) f (ornitolohija)
- Vietnamese: điểu học, cầm điểu học
- Volapük: bödav (vo)
- Waray-Waray: ornitolohiya
- Welsh: adareg f, adaryddiaeth f
- West Frisian: fûgelkunde
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References
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN