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category en · NOUN

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰæɾ.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi] (Australia)
[ˈkʰæɾ.əˌɡoɹ.i] (Canada, General-American)
/ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ (Australia)
/ˈkɛt.ɘ.ɡ(ɘ.)ɹi/ (New-Zealand)
[ˈkʰæɾ.ɪˌɡoɹ.i] (Canada, General-American)
/ˈkæt.ɪˌɡoɹ.i/ (California)
[ˈkʰäɾ.ɪˌɡoɹ.i] (California) California Vowel Shift
/ˈkæt.əˌɡoɹ.i/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈkæt.əˌɡoɹ.i/ (California)
/ˈkɛt.ɘˌɡoː.ɹi/ (New-Zealand)
/ˈkæt.ɪˌɡoɹ.i/ (Canada, General-American)
(California) audio
[ˈkʰäɾ.əˌɡoɹ.i] (California) California Vowel Shift
/kaˈtɛˌɡoɹi/ (Philippines)
/ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ) Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-) Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂ Proto-Hellenic *agorā́ Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́) Pre-Greekder.? Proto-Hellenic *-eús Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek ἀγορεύω (agoreúō) Ancient Greek κᾰτήγορος (kătḗgoros) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορέω (kătēgoréō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱ (kătēgorĭ́ā)bor. Late Latin catēgoriader. Middle French categorie French catégoriebor. Middle English English category Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.

Meanings

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
- I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.
- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners. 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:
A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- The use of the word ‘factor’ shows the explicit intention of categorists to work with functions in an algebraic manner: a category is an algebra of functions. 1995, Michael Barr with Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Great Britain: Prentice Hall, §2.8.9, page 46:
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
categories	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (151)

nl categorie (group) · gl categoría (collection in math) · sq kategori (group) · fi luokka (group) · az kateqoriya (group) · zza kategoriye (group) · eu kategoria (group) · ug كاتېگورىيە (group) · ko 범주 (collection in math) · tk kategoriýa (group) · scn catiggurìa (group) · my မျိုး (group) · ky категория (group) · ca categoria (group) · de Kategorie (group) · da kategori (group) · uk катего́рія (collection in math) · scn catigurìa (collection in math) · cmn 類別 /类别 (group) · pl kategoria (collection in math) · he סוּג (group) · ko 카테고리 (group) · hu kategória (group) · lv kategorija (group) · ru катего́рия (collection in math) · uz turkum (group) · tr kategori (group) · grc κατηγορία (group) · ast categoría (group) · ml വർഗ്ഗം (group) · ro categorie (collection in math) · gd seòrsa (group) · scn catigurìa (group) · ga catagóir (group) · ja カテゴリ (group) · ja 範疇 (group) · gl categoría (group) · nn kategori (group) · hy կատեգորիա (group) · mn ангилал (group) · hy կատեգորիա (collection in math) · fa-ira گُروه (group) · nl categorie (collection in math) · es categoría (group) · ko 범주 (group) · tg гурӯҳ (group) · vi thể loại (group) · sk kategória (group) · fa-ira کَتِگوری (group) · ar فِئَة (collection in math) · pl kategoria (group) · hi श्रेणी (group) · cs kategorie (collection in math) · sl kategorija (group) · rsk катеґория (group) · sv kategori (group) · gd gnè (group) · fa-ira طَبَقِه (group) · ro categorie (group) · ks وَرگ (group) · cmn 分類 /分类 (group) · ug تۈر (group) · uz kategoriya (group) · ja 種別 (group) · ckb ھاوپۆل (collection in math) · bn বিষয়শ্রেণী (group) · pt categoria (collection in math) · zza kategori (collection in math) · kk санат (group) · pt categoria (group) · cmn 範疇 /范畴 (group) · es categoría (collection in math) · ja 圏 (collection in math) · bg катего́рия (group) · yo ìsọ̀rí (group) · de Kategorie (collection in math) · ko 분류 (group) · fa-ira مَقولِه (group) · tg рада (group) · fa-ira نُوع (group) · mk видоред (collection in math) · he מַחְלָקָה f קָטֵגוֹרְיָה (collection in math) · ga earnáil (collection in math) · ja 部門 (group) · yi קאַטעגאָריע (group) · ar فِئَة (group) · mi kāwai (group) · hi वर्ग (group) · ig òtù (group) · fa-ira رَسْتِه (group) · it categoria (group) · ga catagóir (collection in math) · uk катего́рія (group) · my ဂိုဏ်း (group) · sh kategòrija (group) · sv kategori (collection in math) · la categoria (group) · lt kategorija (group) · hy ստորոգում (group) · lo ໝວດ (group) · th ประเภท (group) · lo ປະເພດ (group) · mi rōpū (group) · fa-ira رَدِه (group) · ota صنف (group) · lo ຊະນິດ (group) · haw mahele (group) · fa-ira دَسْتِه (group) · af kategorie (group) · fi kategoria (group) · km ប្រភេទ (group) · mr वर्ग (group) · el κατηγορία (group) · km ចំពូក (group) · io kategorio (group) · sah категория (group) · tt төркем (group) · el κατηγορία (collection in math) · ur زُمْرَہ (group) · mk категорија (group) · ko 부문 (group) · mk категорија (collection in math) · ml തരം (group) · be катэго́рыя (group) · is ríki (collection in math) · zza kategoriy (group) · mk видоред (group) · ja 分類 (group) · cs kategorie (group) · nb kategori (group) · cmn 範疇 /范畴 (collection in math) · et kategooria (group) · th หมวดหมู่ (group) · hy կարգ (group) · ko 종별 (group) · qu katiguriya (group) · ru катего́рия (group) · af kategorie (collection in math) · fr catégorie (group) · eo kategorio (group) · zza réz (group) · ca categoria (collection in math) · fi kategoria (collection in math) · kaa kategoriya (group) · da kategori (collection in math) · sh катего̀рија (group) · is flokkur (group) · fr catégorie (collection in math) · tg категория (group) · it categoria (collection in math) · ka კატეგორია (group)

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