taxonomy

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +‎ -nomy.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɒnəmi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɑːnəmi/

NounEdit

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

SynonymsEdit

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

Coordinate termsEdit

• class, classis, infraclass, infraclassis, subclass, subclassis
• domain
• familia, family, subfamilia, subfamily, superfamilia, superfamily
• genus
• kingdom, subkingdom
• nomenclature
• ontology
• order, ordo, gigaorder, grandorder, infraorder, infraordo, magnorder, parvorder, suborder, subordo, superorder, superordo
• phylum, subphylum, superphylum
• rank
• regnum, subregnum, superregnum
• species, subspecies
• taxon
• terminology

Derived termsEdit

• folk taxonomy
• scientific taxonomy

TranslationsEdit

science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلتَّصْنِيف‏‎ m (ʿilm at-taṣnīf)
• Armenian: տաքսոնոմիա (takʿsonomia), կարգաբանություն (hy) (kargabanutʿyun), կարգաբաշխություն (hy) (kargabašxutʿyun)
• Catalan: taxonomia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分類學 (zh), 分类学 (zh) (fēnlèixué)

• Czech: taxonomie (cs) f
• Dutch: taxonomie (nl) f
• Esperanto: taksonomio
• French: taxinomie (fr) f, taxonomie (fr) f
• German: Taxonomie (de) f
• Greek: ταξινομία (el) f (taxinomía)
• Hebrew: טַקְסוֹנוֹמְיָה‏‎ (he) f (taksonómya)
• Hungarian: rendszertan (hu), taxonómia (hu)
• Icelandic: flokkunarfræði m

• Japanese: 分類学 (ja) (ぶんるいがく, bunruigaku)
• Macedonian: таксономија f (taksonómija)
• Malay: kaji urutan, taksonomi
• Occitan: taxonomia, taxinomia f
• 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: taksonòmija (sh) f, sistemàtika (sh) f
• Spanish: taxonomía (es) f
• Swedish: taxonomi (sv) c
• Turkish: sınıflandırma (tr), taksonomi (tr)
• Welsh: tacsonomeg (cy) f

classification in a hierarchical system

• Arabic: تَصْنِيف‏‎ m (taṣnīf)
• Catalan: taxonomia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分類法 (zh), 分类法 (zh) (fēnlèifǎ), 分類 (zh), 分类 (zh) (fēnlèi)

• French: taxinomie (fr) 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)
• 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: taksonòmija (sh) f
• Swedish: taxonomi (sv) c, systematik (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} taxinomia
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} tassonomia (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 분류학 (ko) (bunryuhak)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} taxonomia (la) f
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} رده بندی‏‎ (fa) (rad-e bandi)

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} taksonomija (sh) f
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} taxonómia f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} taksonomija (sl) f
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sınıflandırma bilimi, ^{(please verify)} taksonomi (tr)

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