Eutaxy
/juːˈtæk.si/noun
Orderly arrangement or good order, especially in a military or formal sense.
Did you know?Eutaxy comes from Greek roots used for disciplined arrangement, and its cousin *taxis* still survives in biology, where it means an organism’s ordered movement toward or away from something.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
εὐταξία (eutaxía)
“good order, orderly arrangement, discipline”
Late Greek
Greek
εὔτακτος (eútaktos)
“well-ordered, disciplined”
Medieval Latin
Latin
eutaxia
“good order, especially in conduct or discipline”
16th–17th Century
English
eutaxy
“orderly arrangement or good order”
Modern English
English
eutaxy
“orderly arrangement; good order”