informatics

See also: informàtics

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Latin fōrmō

Latin īnfōrmō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Late Latin īnfōrmātiōder.

Middle English enformacioun

English information

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

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Latin -icusbor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ms

Proto-Indo-European *-omsder.

Proto-Germanic *-anzder.?

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂m̥s

Proto-Germanic *-ōz

Proto-Germanic *-ōsder.?

Old English -as

Middle English -es

English -s

English -ics

English informatics

Coined 1967 from information +‎ -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/, [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧for‧mat‧ics
• Rhymes: -ætɪks

Noun

informatics (uncountable)

1. Synonym of computer science.
2. (computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.

Hyponyms

Affixed forms and closed compounds

• bioinformatics
• ecoinformatics
• geomatics
• hydroinformatics
• lengthioinformatics
• nanoinformatics
• neuroinformatics

Open compounds

• community informatics
• discovery informatics
• health informatics
• legal informatics
• medical informatics
• nursing informatics
• social informatics
• veterinary informatics

Derived terms

• archaeoinformatics
• astroinformatics
• biblioinformatics
• cheminformatics
• chemoinformatics
• geoinformatics
• glycoinformatics
• immunoinformatics
• informaticist
• pharmacoinformatics
• phyloinformatics
• teleinformatics
• terminotics

Related terms

• informatic

Translations

branch of information science

• Albanian: informatikë f
• Arabic: مَعْلُومَاتِيَّة f (maʕlūmātiyya)
• Armenian: ինֆորմատիկա (hy) (informatika)
• Azerbaijani: informatika (az)
• Belarusian: інфарма́тыка f (infarmátyka)
• Bulgarian: информа́тика (bg) f (informátika)
• Catalan: informàtica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息學 / 信息学 (zh) (xìnxīxué), (Taiwan) 資訊學 / 资讯学 (zīxùnxué), 情報學 / 情报学 (qíngbàoxué)

• Czech: informatika (cs) f
• Danish: informatik c
• Dutch: informatica (nl) f
• Esperanto: informatiko sg
• Estonian: informaatika
• Finnish: informatiikka
• French: science de l'information (fr) f, informatique (fr) m
• Georgian: ინფორმატიკა (inpormaṭiḳa)
• German: Informatik (de) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hindi: सूचना विज्ञान m (sūcnā vijñān)
• Hungarian: informatika (hu), információtechnológia (hu)
• Indonesian: informatika (id)
• Irish: faisnéisíocht f
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• Japanese: 情報学 (ja) (じょうほうがく, jōhōgaku), インフォマティクス (infomatikusu)
• Kabyle: tasenselkimt f
• Kazakh: ақпараттану (kk) (aqparattanuw), ақпаратнама (aqparatnama), информатика (ıynformatıyka)
• Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (pɔədɑɑmiən vityiə)
• Korean: 정보학(情報學) (jeongbohak), 인포메틱스 (inpometikseu)
• Kyrgyz: билметануу (bilmetanuu), информатика (ky) (informatika)
• Latvian: informātika f
• Lithuanian: informatika (lt) f
• Macedonian: информатика f (informatika)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мэдээлэл зүй (medeelel züi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: informatikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: informatikk m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنْفورْماتیک (anformâtik)

• Polish: informatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: informática (pt) f
• Romanian: informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: информа̀тика f

  Latin: informàtika (sh) f

• Sicilian: nfurmàtica f
• Slovak: informatika (sk) f
• Slovene: informatika f
• Spanish: informática (es) f
• Swedish: informatik (sv) c
• Tajik: информатика (tg) (informatika)
• Tatar: информатика (informatiqa)
• Turkish: bilişim (tr), informatik (tr)
• Turkmen: informatika (tk)
• Ukrainian: інформа́тика (uk) f (informátyka)
• Urdu: اِطِّلاعِیات f pl (ittilā'iyāt)
• Uzbek: informatika (uz)
• Vietnamese: tin học (vi) (信學)