different between cacodaemon vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• cacodemon
• cacodæmon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kakodaím?n), from ????? (kakós, “bad, evil”) and ?????? (daím?n, “divinity, genius”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk??di?m?n/

Noun

cacodaemon (plural cacodaemons)

1. A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
2. Twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A nightmare.

Related terms

• cacodaemoniacal
• cacodaemonic
• cacodemonic
• daemonic
• demonic
• daemon
• demon

See also

• agathodemon
• eudaemon

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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