different between tzaddik vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• zaddik
• tsadik
• tsadiq
• tsaddik
• tzadik

Etymology

From Hebrew ???????? (tsadík, “righteous person”). Many pronunciations have come under the influence of Yiddish ????? (tsadek).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ts??.di?k/, /?ts??.d?k/, /?s??.d?k/

Noun

tzaddik (plural tzaddiks or tzaddikim)

1. (Judaism) A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
   • 1988, Christina Pribi?evi?-Zori?, translating Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 226:

     For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….

Translations

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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