different between dialectician vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• dialecticiane, dialectisiane, dialectitian (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???l?k?t??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?da??l?k?t??n/, /?da??l?k?t???n/

Etymology 1

From French dialecticien (“one skillful in dialectic”), from Latin dialecticus (“dialectic”) + French -ien (“-ian”) from Latin -ianus (“-ian”). Equivalent to dialectic +? -ian.

Noun

dialectician (plural dialecticians)

1. (chiefly historical) Someone skilled in dialectics: someone able to arrive at logical conclusions through reasoned argument. [1560]
2. (Hegelianism) Someone skilled in dialectical idealism: someone able to arrive at historical conclusions through consideration of contradictions. [1871]
3. (Marxism) Someone skilled in dialectical materialism: someone able to arrive at socio-political conclusions through consideration of class differences.

Hypernyms

• (one skilled at dialectic reasoning): logician, reasoner, debater
• (one skilled in dialectical idealism): Hegelian
• (one skilled in dialectical materialism): Marxist, Communist

Etymology 2

From dialectic (“dialectical”) +? -ian.

Noun

dialectician (plural dialecticians)

1. Someone knowledgable about dialects. [1848]

Synonyms

• dialectologist

Hypernyms

• linguist, orthoepist

References

• dialectician in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “dialectician, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2014

Romanian

Etymology

From French dialecticien

Noun

dialectician m (plural dialecticieni)

1. dialectician

Declension

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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