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paleontology
1838 (Lyell), probably from Fr.
paléontologie,
from Gk.
palaios
"old, ancient" (see
paleo-
) +
on
(gen.
ontos
) "being" +
-ology
"study of."
Paleontologist
formed in Eng. 1871.
