different between coiffe vs taxonomy

English

Verb

coiffe (third-person singular simple present coiffes, present participle coiffing, simple past and past participle coiffed)

1. Alternative spelling of coif

Anagrams

• off-ice, office

French

Etymology

From Middle French coiffe, from Late Latin cofia, from West Germanic origin. See also Middle High German kupfe (“cap”), Old High German kupphia (“cap”); also spelled coeffe up to the 18th century

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwaf/

Noun

coiffe f (plural coiffes)

1. coif (headgear in general)

Usage notes

This word, except to describe folk or historical dresses, is obsolete and replaced with coiffure, chapeau, etc.

Verb

coiffe

1. inflection of coiffer:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• office

Middle French

Etymology

From Late Latin cofia, from West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju.

See also Middle High German kupfe (“cap”), Old High German kupphia (“cap”).

Noun

coiffe f (plural coiffes)

1. coif (item of chain mail headgear)

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