taxonomy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. By surface analysis, taxo- +‎ -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɒnəmi/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /takˈsɔnəmɪj/

    • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (Northern England, Wales) IPA^(key): /takˈsɒnəmi/
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /takˈsɔnəme/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɑnəmi/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɒnəmi/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɔnəmi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /tɛkˈsɒnəmi/, [tɛkˈsɔ̟nəmi] ~ [-sɞ̠n-]
• Rhymes: -ɒnəmi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

2. The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.

   Holonym: ontology (relational rather than solely hierarchical)

4. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

   Hypernyms: classification < schema, scheme

   Coordinate term: ontology (relational rather than solely hierarchical)

   • 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 February 2016:

     At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.

   • 2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 April 2022:

     Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a press release.

6. (life sciences, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy, biotaxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

• alpha taxonomy
• beta taxonomy
• biotaxonomy
• chemotaxonomy
• cross-taxonomy
• cybertaxonomy
• cytotaxonomy
• ethnotaxonomy
• Flynn's taxonomy
• folksonomy
• folk taxonomy
• gamma taxonomy
• ichnotaxonomy
• macrotaxonomy
• megataxonomy
• metataxonomy
• microtaxonomy
• morphotaxonomy
• numerical taxonomy
• ootaxonomy
• palynotaxonomy
• parataxonomy
• phylotaxonomy
• pseudotaxonomy
• scientific taxonomy
• subtaxonomy
• supertaxonomy
• syntaxonomy
• tagsonomy
• taxon
• taxonomic
• taxonomist
• taxonomize
• zootaxonomy

Translations

science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms

Afrikaans: taksonomie Albanian: taksonomi f Arabic: عِلْم التَّصْنِيف m (ʕilm at-taṣnīf) Armenian: տաքսոնոմիա (hy) (takʻsonomia), կարգաբանություն (hy) (kargabanutʻyun), կարգաբաշխություն (hy) (kargabašxutʻyun) Azerbaijani: taksonomiya Belarusian: таксано́мія f (taksanómija) Bulgarian: таксоно́мия (bg) f (taksonómija) Burmese: မျိုးခွဲပညာ (my) (myui:hkwai:pa.nya) Catalan: taxonomia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 分類學 / 分类学 (zh) (fēnlèixué) Czech: taxonomie (cs) f Danish: taksonomi (da) c Dutch: taxonomie (nl) f Esperanto: taksonomio Estonian: taksonoomia Finnish: taksonomia (fi) French: taxinomie (fr) f, taxonomie (fr) f, taxologie (fr) f Galician: taxonomía (gl) f Georgian: ტაქსონომია (ṭaksonomia) German: Taxonomie (de) f Greek: ταξινομία (el) f (taxinomía) Hebrew: טַקְסוֹנוֹמְיָה (he) f (taksonómya) Hindi: वर्गिकी m (vargikī) Hungarian: rendszertan (hu), taxonómia (hu) Icelandic: flokkunarfræði m Indonesian: taksonomi (id) Italian: tassonomia (it) f Japanese: 分類学 (ja) (ぶんるいがく, bunruigaku) Kazakh: таксономия (taksonomiä) Korean: 분류학(分類學) (ko) (bullyuhak) Kyrgyz: таксономия (taksonomiya) Latvian: taksonomija f Lithuanian: taksonomija (lt) f Macedonian: таксономија f (taksonomija) Malay: kaji urutan, taksonomi (ms) Maltese: tassonomija f Māori: pūnaha whakarōpū Norwegian: Bokmål: taksonomi (no) m Nynorsk: taksonomi m Occitan: taxonomia f, taxinomia f Persian: آرایه‌بندی (ârâye-bandi), آرایه‌شناسی (ârâye-šenâsi) Polish: taksonomia (pl) f Portuguese: taxonomia (pt) f, taxinomia (pt) f, taxionomia (pt) f Romanian: taxonomie (ro) f Russian: таксоно́мия (ru) f (taksonómija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: таксоно̀мија f, система̀тика f Latin: taksonòmija (sh) f, sistemàtika (sh) f Slovak: taxonómia f Slovene: taksonomija (sl) f Spanish: taxonomía (es) f Swedish: taxonomi (sv) c Tajik: таксономия (taksonomiya) Thai: อนุกรมวิธาน (th) (à-nú-grom-wí-taan) Tigrinya: ስነ ምደባ (sənä mədäba) Turkish: sınıflandırma (tr), taksonomi (tr) Turkmen: taksonomiýa Ukrainian: таксоно́мія f (taksonómija) Uzbek: taksonomiya (uz) Vietnamese: phân loại học (vi) (分類學) Welsh: tacsonomeg (cy) f Yiddish: טאַקסאָנאָמיִע f (taksonomie) Zazaki: taksonomiye

classification in a hierarchical system

Afrikaans: taksonomie Arabic: تَصْنِيف m (taṣnīf) Bulgarian: класифика́ция (bg) f (klasifikácija) Catalan: taxonomia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 分類法 / 分类法 (zh) (fēnlèifǎ), 分類 / 分类 (zh) (fēnlèi) Danish: taksonomi (da) c, systematik c Finnish: taksonomia (fi) French: taxinomie (fr) f Galician: taxonomía (gl) f Greek: ταξινόμηση (el) f (taxinómisi) Hungarian: osztályozás (hu) Japanese: 分類法 (ぶんふいほう, bunruihō), 分類 (ja) (ぶんふい, bunrui) Korean: 분류법(分類法) (bullyubeop), 분류(分類) (ko) (bullyu) Malay: taksonomi (ms) Maltese: tassonomija f Norwegian: Bokmål: taksonomi (no) m Nynorsk: taksonomi m Portuguese: taxonomia (pt) f, taxinomia (pt) f, taxionomia (pt) f Romanian: taxonomie (ro) f, ierarhică clasificare f Russian: система́тика (ru) f (sistemátika), классифика́ция (ru) (klassifikácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: таксоно̀мија f Latin: taksonòmija (sh) f Swedish: taxonomi (sv) c, systematik (sv) c

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Interlingua: (please verify) taxinomia Italian: (please verify) tassonomia (it) f Latin: (please verify) taxonomia (la) f Persian: (please verify) رده بندی (fa) (rade bandi) Serbo-Croatian: Latin: (please verify) taksonòmija (sh) f Slovak: (please verify) taxonómia f Slovene: (please verify) taksonomija (sl) f Turkish: (please verify) sınıflandırma bilimi, (please verify) taksonomi (tr)