typology

English

Etymology

From type +‎ -ology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

typology (countable and uncountable, plural typologies)

1. The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types.
2. The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.
3. (archaeology) The result of the classification of things according to their characteristics.
4. (linguistics) Classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to ancestrality like Romance languages).
5. (religion) The doctrine of Scripture types or figures.

Derived terms

• linguistic typology
• morphological typology
• phrasal typology
• Sasang typology
• typological
• typologist

Related terms

• typification
• typing
• typography

Translations

systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics

• Belarusian: тыпало́гія f (typalóhija)
• Bulgarian: типология f (tipologija)
• Catalan: tipologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類型學 / 类型学 (zh) (lèixíngxué)

• Dutch: typologie (nl) f
• Finnish: typologia (fi)
• French: typologie (fr) f
• Georgian: ტიპოლოგია (ṭiṗologia)
• Indonesian: tipologi (id)
• Italian: tipologia (it) f
• Latvian: tipoloģija f
• Portuguese: tipologia f
• Russian: типоло́гия (ru) f (tipológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: tipologija (sh) f
• Spanish: tipología (es) f
• Turkmen: tipologiýa
• Ukrainian: типоло́гія f (typolóhija)
• Welsh: teipoleg

result of the classification of things according to their characteristics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: typologie (nl) f
• Finnish: typologia (fi)
• French: typologie (fr) f
• Latvian: tipoloģija f
• Portuguese: tipologia f
• Serbo-Croatian: tipologija (sh) f

classification of languages

• Albanian: tipologji (sq) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語言類型學 / 语言类型学

• Danish: typologi c
• Dutch: taaltypologie (nl) f, typologie (nl) f
• Finnish: typologia (fi)
• French: typologie (fr) f
• Khmer: បែបវិទ្យា (km) (baepvɨtyiə)
• Serbo-Croatian: tipologija (sh) f
• Swedish: språktypologi (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: tipologie (ro) f

See also

• taxonomy
• value domain

Anagrams

• logotypy