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English

Noun

testor

1. (obsolete) A teston, a sixpence

References

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

Anagrams

• Tretos, ortets, otters, torest, torets, tortes, toters

Latin

Etymology

From testis (“a witness”) +? -o.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tes.tor/, [?t??s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tes.tor/, [?t??st??r]

Verb

testor (present infinitive test?r?, perfect active test?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I am witness, testify, attest
2. I make a will

Conjugation

Derived terms

• attestor
• contestor
• d?testor
• pr?testor

References

• testor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• testor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• testor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• testament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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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