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English

Verb

reborrowing

1. present participle of reborrow

Noun

reborrowing (plural reborrowings)

1. (linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.

2. Something reborrowed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• borrowing
• twice-borrowed

Translations

See also

• Category:English twice-borrowed terms

Further reading

• reborrowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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