different between classis vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

Latin. Doublet of class.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæs?s/

Noun

classis (plural classes)

1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
   • 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism

     At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.

3. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.

   Synonym: order

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?.s?s/
• Hyphenation: clas?sis

Noun

classis f (plural classes)

1. (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod.

Related terms

• klas
• klasse

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kl?ssis, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to call, shout”). Cognate with Latin cal?, cl?m?, cl?rus, concilium, Ancient Greek ????? (kalé?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?klas.sis/, [?k??äs???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?klas.sis/, [?kl?s?is]

Noun

classis f (genitive classis); third declension

1. any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
2. the armed forces
3. fleet
4. a group, rank, or class

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -?).

Descendants

• ? Asturian: clas
• ? Dutch: classis
• ? Catalan: classe
• ? English: classis
• ? Italian: classe
• ? Middle French: classe
  • ? English: class
    • ? Hindi: ????? (kl?s)
    • ? Japanese: ???
    • ? Korean: ??? (keullaeseu)
    • ? Thai: ???? (klâas)
  • French: classe
    • ? Dutch: klasse, Dutch: klas
      • ? Indonesian: kelas
    • ? German: Klasse
      • ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????
    • ? Persian: ?????
    • ? Romanian: clas?
    • ? Vilamovian: klass
• ? Portuguese: classe
• ? Spanish: clase
• ? Venetian: clase
• ? Welsh: clas

References

• classis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• classis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• classis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• classis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• classis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• classis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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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