🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

jerárquico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /xeˈɾaɾ.ki.ko/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hierarchical/ˌhaɪəˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La organización sigue un modelo jerárquico tradicional."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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' meaning 'rule of a high priest' (from 'hieros' sacred + 'archein' to rule). Entering Late Middle English via Medieval Latin, the term evolved to describe any system of elements ranked one above the other in status or ability.

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