taxonymy

English

Etymology

From taxonym +‎ -y.

Noun

taxonymy (uncountable)

1. The relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.
   • 2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, →ISBN, page 150:

     According to the approach to word meaning adopted here, both the core of a category and the relation of taxonymy should in principle be construals, subject to contextual constraints.

   • 2013, R. Green, C.A. Bean, Sung Hyon Myaeng, The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, →ISBN, page 15:

     The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must (a) further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and (b) must similarly highlight it.

   • 2015, Žižka, Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language, →ISBN, page 57:

     Finally, the linguistic expression A kind/type of used as a diagnostic test in the taxonymy relation is treated by Wierzbicka (1996) as a lexical expression of semantic primitives for representing taxonomy.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with taxonomy.