different between macaronic vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• macaronick (obsolete)

Etymology

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæk????n?k/

Adjective

macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

1. (archaic) jumbled, mixed
2. (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
3. (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

Translations

Noun

macaronic (plural macaronics)

1. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
2. (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

Translations

Anagrams

• carcinoma, maccaroni

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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