meteorologer

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μετεωρολόγος (meteōrológos) +‎ -er.

Noun

meteorologer (plural meteorologers)

1. (obsolete) A meteorologist.
   • 1555, Leonard Dygges, A Prognostication of Right Good Effect, Fructfully Augmented, Contayninge Playne, Briefe, Pleasant, Chosen Rules, to Iudge the Wether for Euer, by the Sunne, Moone, Sterres, Cometes, Raynbowe, Thunder, Cloudes, […]‎^[1], London: […] Thomas Gemini [pseudonym; Thomas Lambrit]:

     What Meteorologer conſentith not to the great alteration and mutation of ayer at the coniunction, oppoſition, or quadrate aſpect of Saturne, wyth eyther two lightes?

   • 1686, J[ohn] Goad, Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Large Significant Discourses of the Natures and Influences of the Cœlestial Bodies; […], London: […] O[badiah] B[lagrave] and Sold by John Sprint […], published 1699, page 147:

     But Ptolemy mentions alſo ſome notable incenſed Meteors next to his [Greek text], as if they accompanyed the Concuſſions of the Earth, which we find to be true: [Greek text], he calls them: ſome notable bulky Inflamations of Exhalation floating in the Air, diſtinguiſhed from the Ordinary [Greek text], the Trajections and ſhooting of the Stars, Balls of Fire, Dragons, Trabes, &c. which we meet with in Hiſtory, or their more proper Records, and of which Meteorologers write.

   • 1819 August 1, L., “Thoughts on the Weather, by Professor Bode”, in The New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register. […], volume XII, number 67, London: […] Henry Colburn, […], page 14, column 2:

     With such incessant variations of the gases, it is therefore almost impossible to attain to any precise rules in meteorology, or to certain prognostics of the weather. The higher or lower situation of a country, bare or wooded mountains, will likewise contribute to cause frequently very different weather in places but a few leagues distant from each other. Hence Mr. Bode thinks that there can be properly no such thing as a science of meteorology as regards the weather, and that the pains taken by some meteorologers to invent a theory, appears wholly fruitless; […]

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

meteorologer m pl

1. indefinite plural of meteorolog

Swedish

Noun

meteorologer

1. indefinite plural of meteorolog