different between regretter vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

regret +? -er.

Noun

regretter (plural regretters)

1. One who regrets.

French

Etymology

From Middle French regretter, regreter, from Old French regreter (“to lament”), from re- (“intensive prefix”) +? greter (“to weep”), from Frankish *gr?tan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?tan? (“to weep”) and Frankish *greotan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutan? (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rew- (“to weep, be sad”). Akin to Old High German gr?zan (“to cry”), Old English gr?tan (“to weep, greet”), Old English gr?otan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (gr?tan, “to weep”). More at greet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.???.te/, /??.??e.te/

Verb

regretter

1. to regret

   Je regrette de t'avoir parlé ainsi tout à l'heure.

   Non, je ne regrette rien.

Conjugation

Related terms

• regret

Further reading

• “regretter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French regreter (“to lament”), from re- (“intensive prefix”) +? greter (“to weep”), from Frankish *gr?tan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?tan? (“to weep”) and Frankish *greotan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutan? (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rew- (“to weep, be sad”).

Verb

regretter

1. to regret

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

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

Translations