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-ology en · X

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • [ˈɔ̟ləd͡ʒi] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈɒləd͡ʒi/ (Boston, Canada, Maine)
  • /ˈɒləd͡ʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɑləd͡ʒi/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈɔləd͡ʒi/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English -ology From -o- (interconsonantal vowel) + -logy.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, morpheme) Alternative form of -logy, used for phonological reasons when the preceding morpheme ends in certain consonant sounds.
    alt of -logy
  2. (humorous, morpheme, often) added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.
    • Yet it is interesting to research the tattoo-ology of Katona right after a yoga class. 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian:
    • ...so long as a mere human word-ology is suffered to remain here, clogging all with its deadly impotence... 1857, Delia Bacon, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded:
    • It seems he'd been making original researches in anthropology, or folk-lore-ology, or something like that. 1916, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
    • He gets an -ology and says he failed! 1998, British Telecom advert from 1988 with Maureen Lipman - Ology:
    • Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that is dollar-ology. 1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England:

Relateds

ology · wikipedia:List of words ending in ology

Translations (35)

es -ología (branch of learning) · nl -ologie (branch of learning) · de -ologie (branch of learning) · gl -oloxía (branch of learning) · it -ologia (branch of learning) · pt -ologia (branch of learning) · ta -இயல் (branch of learning) · hu -ológia (branch of learning) · ja 学 (branch of learning) · nb -logi (branch of learning) · cmn 學 /学 (branch of learning) · th ศาสตร์ (branch of learning) · he ־ולוגיה (branch of learning) · pl -logia (branch of learning) · ru -оло́гия (branch of learning) · tl -olohiya (branch of learning) · id -ologi (branch of learning) · km -វិទ្យា (branch of learning) · el -ο--λογία (branch of learning) · ro -ologie (branch of learning) · vi học nghiên cứu (branch of learning) · gur -karẽn (branch of learning) · fr -ologie (branch of learning) · hu -tan (branch of learning) · my ပညာ (branch of learning) · my ဗေဒ (branch of learning) · cs -logie (branch of learning) · cy -eg (branch of learning) · fi -ologia (branch of learning) · hy -բանություն (branch of learning) · cy -oleg (branch of learning) · km -សាស្ត្រ (branch of learning) · cmn 研究 (branch of learning) · bo རིག་པ (branch of learning) · hu -tudomány (branch of learning)