English
klinotaxis
From klino- + taxis.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- ‘to incline’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥-né-y-ti ‘to lean’
Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō
Ancient Greek κλίνω ‘to lean’
English clino-
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to order, to establish, to rule’
Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
Ancient Greek τᾰ́σσω ‘I arrange”, “I order’
Ancient Greek τάξις ‘arrangement, order’
English taxis
Today it means
noun movement towards a stimulus gradient
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / klinotaxis