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Where does “τάξις” come from?

τάξις (Ancient Greek) comes from Ancient Greek -σῐς, from Ancient Greek -τις, from Proto-Indo-European -tis — Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots.

τάξις (Ancient Greek): arrangement, ordering; battle array, order of...

Definitions

  1. arrangement, ordering; battle array, order of...

Ancestry of “τάξις”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greek-σῐς"suffix forming nouns"
2Ancient Greek-τιςEarlier form of -σις , retained after dentals δ,...
3Proto-Indo-European-tisDerives abstract/action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “τάξις”

  • taxes
  • syntax
  • syntactic
  • taxis
  • syntactically
  • morphosyntactic
  • chemotaxis
  • taxidermy
  • morphosyntax
  • parataxis
  • phototaxis
  • syntaxis
  • taxidermic
  • morphosyntactically
  • hypotaxis
  • phyllotaxis
  • geotaxis
  • ligamentotaxis
  • stereotaxis
  • metasyntactic
  • aerotaxis
  • haptotaxis
  • postsyntactic
  • syntactician
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