malacologist en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English malacology 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 malacologist From malacology + -ist.
Meanings
-
A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology.
In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 233:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| malacologists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (13)
gl malacóloga (person who studies molluscs) · hu malakológus (person who studies molluscs) · fi malakologi (person who studies molluscs) · de Malakologe (person who studies molluscs) · cmn 軟體動物學家 /软体动物学家 (person who studies molluscs) · es malacóloga (person who studies molluscs) · de Malakologin (person who studies molluscs) · it malacologo (person who studies molluscs) · fi nilviäistutkija (person who studies molluscs) · gl malacólogo (person who studies molluscs) · fr malacologue (person who studies molluscs) · es malacólogo (person who studies molluscs) · it malacologa (person who studies molluscs)