cerealogy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English cereal

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English cerealogy

From cereal + -logy.

Noun

cerealogy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cereology.
   • 2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:

     There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.

   • 2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:

     Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.

   • 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:

     Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

Derived terms

• cerealogist