categoria

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See also: categoría

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, public accusation). Doublet of category.

Noun

categoria (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Exposure of an opponent's secret wickedness, especially in the opponent's presence.

Aromanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Noun

categoria f (plural categoriur)

  1. category

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Pronunciation

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Noun

categoria f (plural categories)

  1. category

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.te.ɡoˈri.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ca‧te‧go‧rì‧a
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

categoria f (plural categorie)

  1. category, topic
  2. class

Hyponyms

Ladin

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Noun

categoria f (plural categories)

  1. category

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, charge, accusation; logic: predication, category).

Pronunciation

Noun

catēgoria f (genitive catēgoriae); first declension

  1. accusation
  2. predicament
  3. (logic) category

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative catēgoria catēgoriae
Genitive catēgoriae catēgoriārum
Dative catēgoriae catēgoriīs
Accusative catēgoriam catēgoriās
Ablative catēgoriā catēgoriīs
Vocative catēgoria catēgoriae

References

  • categoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • categoria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lombard

Pronunciation

Noun

categoria f

  1. category

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Pronunciation

Noun

categoria f (plural categorias)

  1. category

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin catēgoria, from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧te‧go‧ri‧a

Noun

categoria f (plural categorias)

  1. category

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:categoria.