limnologist en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English limno- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos 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 limnology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English limnologist From limnology + -ist.
Meanings
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A specialist in limnology.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
2012 January 14, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| limnologists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (8)
sv limnolog (specialist in limnology) · be лімнолаг (specialist in limnology) · be азёразнаўца (specialist in limnology) · de Limnologin (specialist in limnology) · de Limnologe (specialist in limnology) · fi limnologi (specialist in limnology) · ru лимнолог (specialist in limnology) · ru озеровед (specialist in limnology)