# taxis
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: tăkʹsēz, IPA: /ˈtæksiz/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æksiz
* Homophone: taxes (without happy-tensing)

#### Noun

taxis (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
* (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
* (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
    Synonym: reduction
* (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
* arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
* (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

##### Usage notes

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.

##### Derived terms

* aerotaxis
* anataxis
* anemotaxis
* barotaxis
* chemotaxis
* chronotaxis
* clinotaxis
* cytotaxis
* electrotaxis
* fluxotaxis
* galvanotaxis
* geotaxis
* gravitaxis
* gyrotaxis
* haptotaxis
* heliotaxis
* hemotaxis
* heterotaxis
* homotaxis
* hydrotaxis
* hypotaxis
* infotaxis
* klinotaxis
* leukotaxis
* ligamentotaxis
* magnetotaxis
* mechanotaxis
* mnemotaxis
* odortaxis
* oxytaxis
* parataxis
* phobotaxis
* phonotaxis
* phototaxis
* phyllotaxis
* rhizotaxis
* scototaxis
* stereotaxis
* telotaxis
* thermotaxis
* thigmotaxis
* tria-taxis
* tropotaxis

##### Translations
#### See also

* kinesis
* tropism

### Etymology 2

See taxi.

#### Alternative forms

* taxies

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: tăkʹsēz, IPA: /ˈtæksiz/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æksiz

#### Noun

taxis
* plural of taxi

#### Verb

taxis
* third-person singular simple present indicative of taxi

## Asturian
### Noun

taxis
* plural of taxi

## Catalan
### Noun

taxis
* plural of taxi

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

taxis m
* plural of taxi

## Hungarian
### Etymology 1

taxi +‎ -s

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒksiʃ]
* Hyphenation: ta‧xis
* Rhymes: -iʃ

#### Noun

taxis (plural taxisok)
* taxi driver, cab driver

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin taxis, from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒksiʃ] (directional movement of an organism) (Can we verify this pronunciation?)
* IPA: [ˈtɒksis] (manipulation of a body part) (Can we verify this pronunciation?)
* Hyphenation: ta‧xis
* Rhymes: -iʃ, -is (Can we verify this pronunciation?)

#### Noun

taxis
* (biology) taxis (the directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus)
* (medicine) taxis (the manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture)

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

taxīs
* dative/ablative plural of taxus

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tāxis
* (Old Latin) second-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of tangō

##### Usage notes

See explanation at tangō.

#### Verb

tāxīs
* (Old Latin) second-person singular sigmatic aorist active subjunctive of tangō

##### Usage notes

See explanation at tangō.

### References

* taxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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

## Spanish
### Noun

taxis
* plural of taxi

## Swedish
### Noun

taxis
* indefinite genitive singular of taxi