noun
Meaning 1
One who practices criminology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
criminologist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪ.mɪ.nɒ.lə.dʒɪst/
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General-American: /ˈkɹɪ.mə.nɑ.lə.dʒɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
a specialist in criminology
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: specialist, specializer, specialiser
Narrower terms: Bertillon, Alphonse Bertillon
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English criminal Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English criminology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English criminologist From criminology + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: criminòleg — person who practices criminology
- Catalan: crimonòloga — person who practices criminology
- Chinese Mandarin: 犯罪學家 /犯罪学家 — person who practices criminology
- Chinese Mandarin: 犯罪学者 (fànzuìxuéjiā) — person who practices criminology
- Dutch: criminoloog — person who practices criminology
- Finnish: kriminologi — person who practices criminology
- French: criminologiste — person who practices criminology
- German: Kriminalist — person who practices criminology
- German: Kriminalistin — person who practices criminology
- German: Kriminologe — person who practices criminology
- German: Kriminologin — person who practices criminology
- Greek: εγκληματολόγος (egklimatológos) — person who practices criminology
- Hebrew: קרימינולוג (qriminolog) — person who practices criminology
- Hebrew: קרימינולוגית (qriminologit) — person who practices criminology
- Indonesian: kriminolog — person who practices criminology
- Italian: criminologo — person who practices criminology
- Italian: criminologa — person who practices criminology
- Japanese: 犯罪学者 (hanzaigakusha) — person who practices criminology
- Polish: kryminolog — person who practices criminology
- Portuguese: criminólogo — person who practices criminology
- Portuguese: criminologista — person who practices criminology
- Romanian: criminolog — person who practices criminology
- Romanian: criminologă — person who practices criminology
- Romanian: criminologist — person who practices criminology
- Romanian: criminologistă — person who practices criminology
- Russian: криминали́ст (kriminalíst) — person who practices criminology
- Russian: криминали́стка (kriminalístka) — person who practices criminology
- Russian: кримино́лог (kriminólog) — person who practices criminology
- Spanish: criminólogo — person who practices criminology
- Spanish: criminóloga — person who practices criminology
- Swedish: kriminolog — person who practices criminology