different between amulette vs taxonomy

English

Noun

amulette (plural amulettes)

1. Obsolete form of amulet.
   • 1907, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, Volume III., page #227:

     In the child’s tomb mentioned above, where we find two pairs of images of the same type, we may with conviction name them Demeter and Kore, reduplicated to increase the potency of the amulette? […]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.my.l?t/

Noun

amulette f (plural amulettes)

1. amulet (object intended to bring protection to its owner)

Synonyms

• gri-gri
• porte-bonheur

Descendants

• ? Dutch: amulet
  • Afrikaans: amulet
  • ? Indonesian: amulet

Further reading

• “amulette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

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.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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