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halfpenny
English
Alternative forms
- (with the first element, half, preserved) halfepenny, halfepeny, halfepenie, halfepenye; halfpenny, halfpeny, halfpenie, halfpenye (all obsolete except halfpenny)
- (with the first element reduced to hal-, ha’, or ha-) halpeny, halpenye, hapeney, ha’penny, hapenny, happenny (all obsolete except ha’penny)
- (with the first element corrupted to haw-) hawpny (dialectal, obsolete)
- (pre-decimalisation abbreviation) ½d
Etymology
From the Middle English halpeni, either from the late-Old English halpenige or from half +? peni; equivalent to half +? penny and continually reinforced by that surface analysis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?he?p(?)ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??f?p?ni/ (spelling pronunciation)
Noun
halfpenny (plural halfpennies or halfpence)
- (plural: halfpennies) (historical) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- If you haven't got a penny, / A ha'penny will do, / If you haven't got a ha'penny, / Then God bless you.
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- (plural: halfpence) A quantity of money worth half a penny.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
- There were none principal; they were all like one another as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
halfpenny (not comparable)
- Costing or worth one halfpenny.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
- There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
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taxonomy
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)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (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
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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