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mineralogy

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌmɪnəˈralədʒi/
  • US: /ˌmɪnəˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/
  • US: /ˌmɪnəˈɹæləd͡ʒi/
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  • CMU ARPABET: M IH2 N ER0 AA1 L AH0 JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The branch of petrology that studies minerals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences, petrology

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Mineral materials.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A treatise on mineralogy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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4

noun

Meaning 4

the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: geology

History

Etymology

From New Latin minerālogia, from Medieval Latin minera (“mineral”) + Latin -logia (“study”). By surface analysis, mineral + -logy.

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Afrikaans: delfstofkunde — the study or science of minerals
  • Armenian: հանքաբանություն (hankʻabanutʻyun) — the study or science of minerals
  • Asturian: mineraloxía — the study or science of minerals
  • Azerbaijani: mineralogiya — the study or science of minerals
  • Basque: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Belarusian: мінерало́гія (minjeralóhija) — the study or science of minerals
  • Breton: maenoniezh — the study or science of minerals
  • Bulgarian: минерало́гия (mineralógija) — the study or science of minerals
  • Burmese: သတ္တုဗေဒ (sattu.beda.) — the study or science of minerals
  • Catalan: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Chinese Cantonese: 礦物學 /矿物学 (kwong3 mat6 hok6) — the study or science of minerals
  • Chinese: 礦物學 /矿物学 (khòng-bu̍t-ha̍k) — the study or science of minerals
  • Chinese Mandarin: 礦物學 /矿物学 (kuàngwù xué) — the study or science of minerals
  • Czech: mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Danish: mineralogi — the study or science of minerals
  • Dutch: mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Esperanto: mineralogio — the study or science of minerals
  • Estonian: mineraloogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Faroese: steinafrøði — the study or science of minerals
  • Finnish: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • French: minéralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Galician: mineraloxía — the study or science of minerals
  • German: Mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Greek: ορυκτολογία (oryktología) — the study or science of minerals
  • Hebrew: מינרלוגיה (mineralogya) — the study or science of minerals
  • Hungarian: ásványtan — the study or science of minerals
  • Hungarian: mineralógia — the study or science of minerals
  • Icelandic: steindafræði — the study or science of minerals
  • Ido: mineralogio — the study or science of minerals
  • Indonesian: mineralogi — the study or science of minerals
  • Interlingua: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Irish: mianreolaíocht — the study or science of minerals
  • Italian: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Japanese: 鉱物学 (kōbutsugaku) — the study or science of minerals
  • Kazakh: минералогия (mineralogiä) — the study or science of minerals
  • Korean: 광물학 (gwangmulhak) — the study or science of minerals
  • Kyrgyz: минералогия (mineralogiya) — the study or science of minerals
  • Latvian: mineraloģija — the study or science of minerals
  • Lithuanian: mineralogija — the study or science of minerals
  • Luxembourgish: mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Malayalam: ധാതുവിജ്ഞാനീയം (dhātuvijñānīyaṁ) — the study or science of minerals
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mineralogi — the study or science of minerals
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mineralogi — the study or science of minerals
  • Persian: کانیشناسی (kâni-šenâsi) — the study or science of minerals
  • Polish: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Portuguese: mineralogia — the study or science of minerals
  • Romanian: mineralogie — the study or science of minerals
  • Russian: минерало́гия (mineralógija) — the study or science of minerals
  • Serbo-Croatian: минералогија — the study or science of minerals
  • Serbo-Croatian: mineralogija — the study or science of minerals
  • Slovak: mineralógia — the study or science of minerals
  • Slovene: mineralogija — the study or science of minerals
  • Spanish: mineralogía — the study or science of minerals
  • Swedish: mineralogi — the study or science of minerals
  • Tagalog: lupangkapan — the study or science of minerals
  • Telugu: ఖనిజశాస్త్రము (khanijaśāstramu) — the study or science of minerals
  • Turkish: mineraloji — the study or science of minerals
  • Udmurt: муизтодос (muiztodos) — the study or science of minerals
  • Udmurt: минералогия (mińeralogija) — the study or science of minerals
  • Ukrainian: мінерало́гія (mineralóhija) — the study or science of minerals
  • Vietnamese: khoáng vật học — the study or science of minerals
  • Volapük: minav — the study or science of minerals
Real reading context

mineralogy in complete knowledge articles