Where does “climatology” come from?
Climatology derives from English climate and English -logy, ultimately from Latin clima and Ancient Greek κλίμα, meaning slope or region, from the root κλίνω meaning to lean or incline.
climatology (English): The science that deals with climates, and...
Definitions
- The science that deals with climates, and...
Ancestry of “climatology”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | climate | An area of the earth's surface between two... |
| 2 | Middle English | climat | — |
| 3 | Old French | climat | — |
| 4 | Latin | clima | slope, inclination; A Roman unit of area... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κλίμα | a slope, incline, inclination; the supposed slope... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κλίνω | to bend, slant; to cause to give way, cause to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱley- | to shelter, cover; to lean, slope, incline |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |
Words derived from “climatology”
- climatological
- climatologist
- paleoclimatology
- climatologic
- climatologically
- palaeoclimatology
- paleoclimatologist
- dendroclimatology
- bioclimatology
- microclimatology
- palaeoclimatological
- bioclimatological
- dendroclimatological
- bioclimatologist
- anthropoclimatology
- cosmoclimatology
- macroclimatology
- phytoclimatology
- palaeoclimatologic
- nonclimatological
- dendroclimatologist
- microclimatologist
- hydroclimatological
- paleoclimatological