taxonomy

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɒn.ə.mi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tækˈsɑn.ə.mi/
• Rhymes: -ɒnəmi

Noun

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.
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     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.

3. (taxonomy, 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
• chemotaxonomy
• cybertaxonomy
• cytotaxonomy
• ethnotaxonomy
• Flynn's taxonomy
• folk taxonomy
• ichnotaxonomy
• morphotaxonomy
• numerical taxonomy
• parataxonomy
• phylotaxonomy
• scientific taxonomy
• subtaxonomy
• supertaxonomy
• taxon
• taxonomic
• 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
• 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
• Maori: 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

  Roman: 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 (分類學)
• Welsh: tacsonomeg (cy) f
• 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

  Roman: 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. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• 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:

  Roman: ^{(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)