petrology

English

WOTD – 23 February 2012

Etymology

From petro- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈtɹɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
(US) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɹɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

petrology (usually uncountable, plural petrologies)

(geology) The study of the origin, composition and structure of rock.

Meronyms

mineralogy

Related terms

Translations

the study of rock

Bashkir: петрология (petrologiya)
Catalan: petrologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 岩石學／岩石学 (zh) (yánshíxué)
Danish: petrologi (da) c
Dutch: steenkunde f
Finnish: petrologia (fi)
French: pétrologie (fr) f
Galician: petroloxía f
German: Petrologie f, Gesteinskunde f
Italian: petrologia (it) f
Japanese: 岩石学 (ja) (がんせきがく, gansekigaku)
Kazakh: петрология (petrologiä)
Kyrgyz: петрология (petrologiya)
Malayalam: ശിലാവിജ്ഞാനം (śilāvijñānaṁ)
Norwegian: petrologi m
Portuguese: petrologia f
Romanian: petrologie (ro) f
Spanish: petrología (es) f
Tagalog: dalubbatuhan
Tamil: பாறையியல் (ta) (pāṟaiyiyal)
Vietnamese: thạch luận

Anagrams

pterology, reptology

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