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English

Etymology

From Middle English ei?ti, ey?ty, ei?tety, aghty, from Old English hundeahtati?, from Proto-Germanic *aht?ut?hund? (“eighty”), equivalent to eight +? -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), Saterland Frisian tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), German Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??ti, IPA^(key): /?e?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?(?)e???i]
• Rhymes: -e?ti

Numeral

eighty

1. The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

Related terms

• eight
• eighteen

Translations

See also

• Last: seventy-nine, seventy
• Next: eighty-one, ninety

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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