different between regnum vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Latin r?gnum (“kingdom”). Doublet of reign.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.n?m/

Noun

regnum (plural regnums or regna)

1. (biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below dominium and above divisio.

   Synonym: kingdom

2. A badge of royalty, especially the early form of the pope's tiara.

Anagrams

• Munger

Latin

Etymology

From r?x (“king”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re??.num/, [?re??n???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re?.?um/, [?r???um]

Noun

r?gnum n (genitive r?gn?); second declension

1. royal power, power, control, kingdom, reign

2. kingship, royalty

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• regnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• regnum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regnum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• regnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• regnum in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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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