different between chieftainess vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From chieftain +? -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the New English Dictionary suggests the word was coined anew in modern English in the 19th century.

Noun

chieftainess (plural chieftainesses)

1. In tribal societies, a female chieftain or the wife of a chieftain.
   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Chapter, [1]

     He gazed in silence for some minutes upon the body of Meg Merrilies, as it lay before him, with the features sharpened by death, yet still retaining the stern and energetic character which had maintained in life her superiority as the wild chieftainess of the lawless people amongst whom she was born.

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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

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