different between protestor vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

protest +? -or

Noun

protestor (plural protestors)

1. Alternative spelling of protester
   • 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter

     No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]

Latin

Etymology

From pr?- +? testor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro??tes.tor/, [p?o??t??s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro?tes.tor/, [p???t??st??r]

Verb

pr?testor (present infinitive pr?test?r?, perfect active pr?test?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I testify, bear witness
2. I protest

Conjugation

Descendants

• Catalan: protestar
• English: protest
• French: protester
• Galician: protestar
• Italian: protestare
• Portuguese: protestar
• Spanish: protestar

References

• protestor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• protestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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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