nymphology en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē)der. Latin nymphader. Old French nimphebor. Middle English nimphe English nymph Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- 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 -ology English nymphology From nymph + -ology.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The study of mythological nymphs.
[…] Boccaccio not only informs us about the nomenclature of nymphology, distinguishing Nereides, Naiades, Napeae, Anadriades, Hymnides and so forth […]
2018, The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture, page 381:His criticism, however peremptory, is a just pronouncement on most of these literary incursions into the pretty paganism of nymphology.
1989, Frederic S. Colwell, Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source, page 110:Then comes the point of the warning itself, the first instance of Propertius' outlandish nymphology in this poem […]
1975, David O. Ross, Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome, page 76: