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taxon
English
Etymology
Back-formation from taxonomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?tæks?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?tæks??n/
Noun
taxon (plural taxa or taxons)
- (taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- taxon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Axton
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxon.
Noun
taxon m (plural taxoni)
- (taxonomy) taxon
Declension
Spanish
Noun
taxon m (plural táxones)
- Alternative form of taxón
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clavis
English
Etymology
From Latin cl?vis (“a key”). Doublet of clef.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kle?.v?s/, /?kl?v.?s/
- Rhymes: -e?v?s
Noun
clavis (plural clavises or claves)
- (archaeology) A Roman key.
- Synonym: key
- A device for restraint of the hands.
- Synonym: shackles
- A glossary.
- Synonyms: glossary, idioticon, vocabulary
- (taxonomy) A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- Synonyms: identification guide, conspectus, key
Related terms
- clavichord
References
- “clavis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Anagrams
- Slavic, cavils
Catalan
Verb
clavis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of clavar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kl?wis. Either a secondary i-stem derivation of the Proto-Indo-European *kleh?u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) which gave also Latin cl?vus (“nail”), an inherited Indo-European word originally denoting an instrument for unlocking doors, or a loanword from dialectal Ancient Greek *?????? (*kl?wís) (Classical ????? (kleís)), from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kla?.u?is/, [?k??ä?u??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kla.vis/, [?kl??vis]
Noun
cl?vis f (genitive cl?vis); third declension
- a key
- Ellipsis of cl?vis troch?: an instrument in the form of a key, by which a top was set in motion
- a lever or bar for tightening a screw press
- Synonym: cl?vis torcul?r?
Usage notes
Not to be confused with cl?va (“a staff, cudgel, club”) or cl?vus (“a nail”).
Inflection
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -?).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
See also
- cl?va
- cl?vus
References
- clavis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clavis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clavis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- clavis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- clavis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clavis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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