"speleology" meaning in All languages combined

See speleology on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: speleologies [plural]
Etymology: From French spéléologie, coined by Émile Rivière in 1890. The word can be broken down as speleo- + -logy. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|spéléologie}} French spéléologie, {{confix|en|speleo|logy}} speleo- + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} speleology (usually uncountable, plural speleologies)
  1. The scientific study of caves. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (scientific study of caves): спелеоло́гия (speleológija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), espeleologia [feminine] (Catalan), 洞穴學 (Chinese Mandarin), 洞穴学 (dòngxuéxué) (Chinese Mandarin), speleologie [feminine] (Czech), speleologie [feminine] (Dutch), speleologio (Esperanto), speleologia (Finnish), luolatutkimus (Finnish), spéléologie [feminine] (French), Speläologie (German), Speleologie (German), Höhlenforschung (German), Höhlenkunde (German), σπηλαιολογία (spilaiología) [feminine] (Greek), szpeleológia (Hungarian), barlangtan (Hungarian), 洞穴学 (dōketsugaku) (alt: どうけつがく) (Japanese), ᠠᠭᠤᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (aɣui yin sudulul) (Mongolian), агуйн судлал (agujn sudlal) (Mongolian), speleologia [feminine] (Polish), espeleologia [feminine] (Portuguese), speologie [feminine] (Romanian), спелеоло́гия (speleológija) [feminine] (Russian), speleológia [feminine] (Slovak), espeleología [feminine] (Spanish), speleologi [common-gender] (Swedish), palayungiban (Tagalog), lekevav (Volapük), ogofeg [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-speleology-en-noun-AhKeMXph Disambiguation of 'scientific study of caves': 94 6
  2. The recreational activity of exploring caves. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Caving Translations (recreational activity of exploring caves): espeleologia [feminine] (Catalan), luolatutkimus (Finnish), barlangkutatás (Hungarian), barlangászat (Hungarian), espeleísmo [masculine, rare] (Spanish), ogofa [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-speleology-en-noun-27BAMRxZ Disambiguation of Caving: 31 69 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with speleo-, English terms suffixed with -logy, English terms suffixed with -ology Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with speleo-: 41 59 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -logy: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ology: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'recreational activity of exploring caves': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: speleological, spelunk, caving, potholing

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for speleology meaning in All languages combined (7.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "spéléologie"
      },
      "expansion": "French spéléologie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "speleo",
        "3": "logy"
      },
      "expansion": "speleo- + -logy",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French spéléologie, coined by Émile Rivière in 1890. The word can be broken down as speleo- + -logy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speleologies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "speleology (usually uncountable, plural speleologies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "speleological"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spelunk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "caving"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "potholing"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The scientific study of caves."
      ],
      "id": "en-speleology-en-noun-AhKeMXph",
      "links": [
        [
          "scientific",
          "scientific"
        ],
        [
          "cave",
          "cave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "speleológija",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "спелеоло́гия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "espeleologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "洞穴學"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dòngxuéxué",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "洞穴学"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "speleologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "speleologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "speleologio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "speleologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "luolatutkimus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "spéléologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "Speläologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "Speleologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "Höhlenforschung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "Höhlenkunde"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "spilaiología",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "σπηλαιολογία"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "szpeleológia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "barlangtan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "alt": "どうけつがく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "dōketsugaku",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "洞穴学"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "aɣui yin sudulul",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "ᠠᠭᠤᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "agujn sudlal",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "агуйн судлал"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "speleologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "espeleologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "speologie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "speleológija",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "спелеоло́гия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "speleológia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "espeleología"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "speleologi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "palayungiban"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "word": "lekevav"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "scientific study of caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ogofeg"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with speleo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -logy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Caving",
          "orig": "en:Caving",
          "parents": [
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The recreational activity of exploring caves."
      ],
      "id": "en-speleology-en-noun-27BAMRxZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "recreational",
          "recreational"
        ],
        [
          "exploring",
          "exploring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "espeleologia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "word": "luolatutkimus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "word": "barlangkutatás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "word": "barlangászat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "espeleísmo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ogofa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "speleology"
  ],
  "word": "speleology"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms prefixed with speleo-",
    "English terms suffixed with -logy",
    "English terms suffixed with -ology",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Caving"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "spéléologie"
      },
      "expansion": "French spéléologie",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "speleo",
        "3": "logy"
      },
      "expansion": "speleo- + -logy",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French spéléologie, coined by Émile Rivière in 1890. The word can be broken down as speleo- + -logy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speleologies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "speleology (usually uncountable, plural speleologies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "speleological"
    },
    {
      "word": "spelunk"
    },
    {
      "word": "caving"
    },
    {
      "word": "potholing"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The scientific study of caves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scientific",
          "scientific"
        ],
        [
          "cave",
          "cave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The recreational activity of exploring caves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recreational",
          "recreational"
        ],
        [
          "exploring",
          "exploring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "speleológija",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спелеоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espeleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "洞穴學"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dòngxuéxué",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "洞穴学"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "speleologio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "speleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "luolatutkimus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spéléologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "Speläologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "Speleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "Höhlenforschung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "Höhlenkunde"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "spilaiología",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "σπηλαιολογία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "szpeleológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "barlangtan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうけつがく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōketsugaku",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "洞穴学"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "aɣui yin sudulul",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "ᠠᠭᠤᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "agujn sudlal",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "агуйн судлал"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espeleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "speleológija",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спелеоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speleológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espeleología"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "speleologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "palayungiban"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "word": "lekevav"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "scientific study of caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ogofeg"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "espeleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "word": "luolatutkimus"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "word": "barlangkutatás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "word": "barlangászat"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "espeleísmo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "recreational activity of exploring caves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ogofa"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "speleology"
  ],
  "word": "speleology"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.