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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin ornithologia, coined by Ulisse Aldrovandi from Ancient Greek ὀρνιθολόγος (ornithológos),[1] from ὄρνις (órnis) and λόγος (lógos). See also ornitho- + -logy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɔɹnɪθɒlədʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun
[edit]ornithology (countable and uncountable, plural ornithologies)
- The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.
- 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.
- 2006 January 24, James Gorman, “Ivory Bill Report Is Called 'Faith-Based Ornithology'”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Jerome A. Jackson, an ivory bill specialist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, has now increased the intensity of the discussion in a 15-page article in the current issue of The Auk, a quarterly ornithology journal published by the American Ornithologists' Union.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]scientific study of birds
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References
[edit]- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
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