selenology

selenology

English

WOTD – 17 July 2010

Etymology

selen- (“moon”) +‎ -o- +‎ -logy (“study”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕlēnŏʹləjĭ, IPA^(key): /sɛliːˈnɒləd͡ʒɪ/

Noun

selenology (usually uncountable, plural selenologies)

1. (astronomy) The scientific study of the Moon.
   1. (chiefly) The scientific study of the Moon’s movements in the heavens and the kinetic influences it has upon and it receives from other astronomical bodies.
   2. (occasionally) The scientific study of the formation and composition of the Moon’s crust.

Derived terms

• selenological
• selenologically
• selenologist

See also

• selenography

Translations

the study of the moon and several satellites

Armenian: լուսնագիտություն (hy) (lusnagitutʿyun) Dutch: selenologie Finnish: kuututkimus, selenologia (fi) French: sélénologie (fr) German: Selenologie Greek: σεληνολογία (selinología) Hindi: चन्द्रविज्ञान (candravigyān) Hungarian: szelenológia (hu) Italian: selenologia

Macedonian: селенологија (selenológija) Norwegian: selenologi m Polish: selenologia (pl) f Portuguese: selenologia (pt) Russian: селеноло́гия (ru) (selenológija) Sindhi: چنڊڀياس‎ (sd) Spanish: selenologia Swedish: selenologi Ukrainian: селенологія (selenolohija)

See also

• selenology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• areology
• geology

References

• “selenology” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]