English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. English ichthyologist
From ichthyology + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
ichthyologist (plural ichthyologists)
- An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.]
2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don’t come any bigger”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:Meanwhile, the other two main actors, Richard Dreyfuss as boyish ichthyologist Hooper and Robert Shaw as grizzled shark-hunter Quint, further added to the deepening of the dramatis personae by the paradoxical boon that they loathed each other.
Derived terms
Translations
expert in ichthyology
- Armenian: ձկնաբան (hy) (jknaban)
- Asturian: ictiólogu m
- Catalan: ictiòleg m, ictiòloga f
- Esperanto: iĥtiologo, iktiologo
- Finnish: iktyologi (fi)
- French: ichthyologue (fr) m or f, ichtyologue (fr) m or f
- Galician: ictiólogo (gl) m
- German: Ichthyologe (de) m, Ichthyologin (de) f, Fischkundler (de) m, Fischkundlerin (de) f
- Icelandic: fiskifræðingur m
- Italian: ittiologo m, ittiologa (it) f
- Macedonian: ихтиоло́г m (ihtiológ)
- Occitan: ictiològ m
- Polish: ichtiolog (pl) m or f
- Portuguese: ictiólogo (pt)
- Romanian: ihtiolog (ro) m, ihtiologă (ro) f
- Russian: ихтио́лог (ru) m (ixtiólog)
- Spanish: ictiólogo m
- Swedish: iktyolog (sv) c
- Turkish: ihtiyolog
- Volapük: (♂♀) fitavan, (♂) hifitavan, (♀) jifitavan
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