🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

gerarchico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /dʒeˈrar.tʃi.ko/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hierarchical/ˌhaɪəˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"I sistemi burocratici sono di natura gerarchica."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Arranged in order of rank, grade, or class.

    "The corporation has a strict hierarchical structure for decision making."
  2. 2

    Pertaining to a hierarchy or characteristic of one.

    "Data was organized in a hierarchical tree format within the database."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek words 'hierarchia' (rule of a high priest), combining 'hieros' (sacred) and 'archein' (to rule). Entering Late Middle English via Old French and medieval Latin, the term eventually evolved to describe any system of ranking persons or things according to status, authority, or abstraction level.

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