systematization

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English systematic

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English systematize

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English systematization

From systematize + -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

systematization (countable and uncountable, plural systematizations)

1. The act of systematizing.
2. A systematic organization.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish):

     Animals show a knowledge of natural laws and the relations of cause and effect, and human knowledge is a development and systematization of this.

Related terms

• system
• systematic

Translations

act of systematizing

• Asturian: sistematización f
• Belarusian: сістэматыза́цыя f (sistematyzácyja)
• Bulgarian: систематизиране (bg) n (sistematizirane)
• Catalan: sistematització f
• Czech: systematizace f
• Finnish: systematisointi (fi), järjestelmällistäminen
• French: systématisation (fr) f
• Galician: sistematización (gl) f
• German: Systematisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: rendszerezés (hu), szisztematizálás (rare)
• Latvian: sistematizācija f
• Polish: systematyzacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sistematização (pt) f
• Romanian: sistematizare (ro) f
• Russian: систематиза́ция (ru) f (sistematizácija)
• Spanish: sistematización f
• Ukrainian: систематиза́ція f (systematyzácija)

Further reading

• “systematization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “systematization”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.