different between exactor vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From exact +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???zækt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???zækt?/
• Rhymes: -ækt?(?)

Noun

exactor (plural exactors)

1. A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.
2. A person who collects taxes.

Derived terms

• exactress

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek?sa?k.tor/, [?k?s?ä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?sak.tor/, [???z?kt??r]

Noun

ex?ctor m (genitive ex?ct?ris); third declension

1. expeller
2. exactor, tax collector
3. enforcer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: exactor
• Galician: exactor
• Italian: esattore
• Portuguese: exator
• Spanish: exactor

References

• exactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exactor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• exactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin exactor.

Noun

exactor m (plural exactores)

1. collector of debts, taxes, etc.

Etymology 2

ex- +? actor

Noun

exactor m (plural exactores)

1. former actor

Further reading

• “exactor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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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