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発音

• enPR: tăkʹsĭs, IPA: /ˈtæksɪs/

名詞

taxis (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
2. (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.

   Synonym: reduction

3. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
4. arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
5. (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

使用する際の注意点

Distinguished from tropism in that in a tropism, the organism is not motile, and simply turns or grows towards or away from stimulus (e.g., plants, fungi), while in a taxis, the organism has motility and moves towards or away from stimulus (e.g., bacteria, animals). Distinguished from a kinesis in that a kinesis is non-directional movement, while a taxis is directional.

派生語

参考

• kinesis
• tropism

語源 2

See taxi.

別の表記

• taxies

発音

• enPR: tăkʹsēz, IPA: /ˈtæksiz/
• 韻: -æksiz

名詞

taxis

1. plural of taxi

動詞

taxis

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of taxi

名詞

taxīs

1. dative/ablative plural of taxus

語源 2

動詞

tāxis

1. (Old Latin) second-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of tangō

使用する際の注意点

See explanation at tangō.

動詞

tāxīs

1. (Old Latin) second-person singular sigmatic aorist active subjunctive of tangō

使用する際の注意点

See explanation at tangō.

参照

• "taxis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “taxis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taxis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin