different between sacristan vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. See sacred, and compare sexton.

Noun

sacristan (plural sacristans)

1. The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And hence the custom and law began

     That still at dawn the sacristan,

     Who duly pulls the heavy bell,

     Five and forty beads must tell

     Between each stroke

Related terms

• sacrist
• sacristry
• sacristy

Translations

Anagrams

• arcanists

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sacristain, Italian sacristano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kris?tan/

Noun

sacristan m (plural sacristani)

1. sacristan

Declension

Synonyms

• sacristin (dated)
• paracliser (in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Related terms

• sacristie

See also

• sacru

References

• sacristan in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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