paleography

English

Alternative forms

• palaeography (UK)
• palæography (UK, dated)

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ -graphy; imitating Latin palaeographia for the first sense and French paléographie and paléogéographie for the second and third senses.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpalɪˈɒɡɹəfi/, /ˌpeɪlɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpeɪliˈɑɡɹəfi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

paleography (countable and uncountable, plural paleographies) (American spelling)

1. The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
2. Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
3. (obsolete) Paleogeography.

Translations

study of old forms of writing

• Albanian: paleografi (sq) ?
• Arabic: عِلْم الكِتَابَات القَدِيمَة ? (ʕilm al-kitābāt al-qadīma)
• Armenian: հնագրություն (hy) (hnagrutʻyun)
• Asturian: paleografía f
• Azerbaijani: paleoqrafiya
• Bashkir: палеография (paleografiya)
• Basque: paleografia (eu)
• Belarusian: палеаграфія f (paljeahrafija)
• Bulgarian: палеография f (paleografija)
• Catalan: paleografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 古文字學／古文字学 (gu² man⁴ zi⁶ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 古文字學／古文字学 (zh) (gǔwénzìxué)

  Wu: 古文字学

• Chuvash: палеографи (paleografi)
• Czech: paleografie f
• Danish: palæografi ?
• Dutch: paleografie (nl) ?
• Esperanto: paleografio
• Estonian: paleograafia
• Finnish: paleografia (fi)
• French: paléographie (fr) f
• Galician: paleografía (gl) f
• Georgian: პალეოგრაფია (ṗaleograpia)
• German: Paläografie (de) f, Paläographie (de) f
• Greek: παλαιογραφία (el) f (palaiografía)
• Hebrew: פלאוגרפיה (he) f
• Hindi: पुरालेखविद्या ? (purālekhvidyā)
• Hungarian: paleográfia (hu)
• Icelandic: handritafræði ?
• Ido: paleografio (io)
• Indonesian: paleografi (id)
• Italian: paleografia (it) f
• Japanese: 古文書学 (ja) (こもんじょがく, komonjogaku), ^{(please verify)} 古書体学
• Kazakh: палеография (paleografiä)
• Korean: 고문자학 (gomunjahak)
• Kyrgyz: палеография (paleografiya)
• Latin: palaeographia f
• Latvian: paleogrāfija f
• Luxembourgish: Paleographie f
• Macedonian: палеографија f (paleografija)
• Marathi: लिपिशास्त्र ? (lipiśāstra)
• Norwegian: paleografi m
• Persian: کتیبهشناسی
• Polish: paleografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: paleografia (pt) f
• Romanian: paleografie (ro) f
• Russian: палеогра́фия (ru) f (paleográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: палеогра̀фија f

  Roman: paleogràfija (sh) f

• Slovak: paleografia f
• Slovene: paleografija (sl) f
• Spanish: paleografía f
• Swedish: paleografi (sv) ?
• Tagalog: dalubtalandaan
• Turkish: paleografi (tr)
• Turkmen: paleografiýa
• Ukrainian: палеографія f (paleohrafija)
• Uzbek: paleografiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: cổ văn tự học
• Volapük: vönapenav
• Welsh: palaeograffeg f
• Yiddish: פּאַלעאָגראַפֿיע f (paleografye)

ancient scripts or forms of writing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古文字 (zh) (gǔwénzì)

• Finnish: vanhat kirjoitustyylit pl
• Portuguese: paleografia (pt) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: paleografía f

References

• “paleography”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.