different between ethology vs cynology

English

Etymology

From the Latin ?thologia (“the art of depicting or imitating character”), from the Ancient Greek ???????? (?thología, “painting of character, especially by mimic gestures”), from ???????? (?thológos, “painting character by mimic gestures”), from ???? (êthos, “character, especially moral character”). Equivalent to etho- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /i????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

ethology (countable and uncountable, plural ethologies)

1. (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.
2. (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

Related terms

• ethologist

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See also

• ethnology

Further reading

• ethology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ethology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ethology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ethology at OneLook Dictionary Search

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• theology

English

Etymology

cyno- +? -logy

Noun

cynology (uncountable)

1. The study of dogs.
   • 1892, The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives,

     Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology, the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...

   • 1951, The American Mercury,

     Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.

   • 1985, The Complete Dog Book, published by the American Kennel Club,

     The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.

   • 1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 Evidence and Faith,

     Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...

Related terms

• cynologist

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