palaeoscience
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any scientific discipline that studies the geologic past; especially a division of a study that normally focuses on the present geological state.
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der. English paleo- English palaeo- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Latin -ia Latin scientialbor. Old French sciencebor. Middle English science English science English palaeoscience From palaeo- + science.