Etymology

taxis

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Today it means: The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. Full definition →

Ancient Greek τάξις
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taxis · noun1

  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromτάξις“arrangement, order”
  2. English todaytaxis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).

taxis · noun, verb2

See taxi.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτάξις all →

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