different between behove vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English behoven, bihoven (“to be necessary, requisite; to be compelled or required (to do something)”), from Old English beh?fian (“to need; to be necessary”), from Proto-Germanic *bih?f?n? (“advantage, behoof, profit; need”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to grab, seize”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian bih?via (“to need”), Dutch behoeven (“to need”), obsolete German behufen (cf. Behuf), Danish behøve (“to need”), Norwegian behøve (“to need”), Swedish behöva (“to have use for, to need”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??h??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bi?ho?v/
• Rhymes: -??v
• Hyphenation: be?hove

Verb

behove (third-person singular simple present behoves, present participle behoving, simple past and past participle behoved)

1. (transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.
2. (transitive, formal) To be necessary for (someone).
3. (transitive, formal) To be in the best interest of; to benefit.
4. (intransitive, formal) To be needful, meet or becoming.

Alternative forms

• behoove (chiefly US)

Related terms

• behoof
• behoveful
• behovely

Derived terms

• behovable, behoovable

Translations

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• byhove, bihove, behoove, behoofe, byhufe, beove

Etymology

From Old English beh?fe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?ho?v(?)/

Noun

behove (uncountable)

1. Benefit, advantage.
2. Duty.

Usage notes

This term is typically found as part of a dative phrase beginning with to, unto or at; e.g., “to þy behove” means “to your advantage".

Synonyms

• behofþe

Related terms

References

• “bih??ve, n. (orig. dative).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

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

Translations