different between viaticum vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Latin vi?ticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey”), from vi?ticus (“of a road or journey”), from via (“road”). Doublet of voyage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???at?k?m/

Noun

viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)

1. The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
2. (often figuratively) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
3. A portable altar.

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Further reading

• viaticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter form of the adjective vi?ticus (“pertaining to a journey or traveling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?i?a?.ti.kum/, [u?i?ä?t??k???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi?a.ti.kum/, [vi???t?ikum]

Noun

vi?ticum n (genitive vi?tic?); second declension

1. travelling-money; provision for a journey
2. (figuratively) a journey
3. resources; means
4. money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• vi?tic?tus
• vi?ticulum

Related terms

• via
• vi?ticus
• vi?tor, viatrix
• vi?t?rius

Descendants

References

• viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viaticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• viaticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• viaticum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viaticum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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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