different between onomastics vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (onomastikós), from ????????? (onomastós, “named”), form of ??????? (onomáz?, “I name”), from ????? (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn? (“name”) (whence English name).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.n???mæs.t?ks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.no??mæs.t?ks/, /???.n??mæs.t?ks/

Noun

onomastics pl (plural only)

1. The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.

Synonyms

• onomatology

Hypernyms

• lexicology
• etymology (in sense of “origins”)

Hyponyms

• anthroponymy
• toponymy

Derived terms

Related terms

• onomastic
• onomastically
• onomastician
• onomasticon

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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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