"category" in seven languages
Meaningcategory
Spanish
categoría
/kategoˈɾia/
fem.learned
French
catégorie
/kategɔʁi/
fem.learned
Italian
categoria
/kategoˈria/
fem.learned
Portuguese
categoria
/kategoˈɾiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
categorie
/kategoˈrie/
fem.learned
Catalan
categoria
/kətəguˈɾiə/
fem.learned
English
category
/ˈkætəgɔɹi/
from Latin/French · French catégorie / Late Latin CATĒGORIA
English → ItaliancategorycategoriaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CATĒGORIAM‘predicate, class (from Greek katēgoria 'accusation')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek law-court word, 'accusation', that Aristotle turned into a term for the kinds of things one can say about something.
English relatives: categorical, categorize
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In a sentence
- esEste libro pertenece a otra categoría.
- frCe livre appartient à une autre catégorie.
- itQuesto libro appartiene a un'altra categoria.
- ptEste livro pertence a outra categoria.
- roAceastă carte aparține altei categorii.
- caAquest llibre pertany a una altra categoria.
- enThis book belongs to another category.
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