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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. By surface analysis, taxo- + -nomy.
Pronunciation
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
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- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
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science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms
- Afrikaans: taksonomie
- Albanian: taksonomi f
- Arabic: عِلْم التَّصْنِيف m (ʕilm at-taṣnīf)
- Armenian: տաքսոնոմիա (hy) (takʿsonomia), կարգաբանություն (hy) (kargabanutʿyun), կարգաբաշխություն (hy) (kargabašxutʿyun)
- 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
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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
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