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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κᾰτηγορέω (katēgoréō, “I accuse, speak against”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.tɛː.ɡo.rí.aː/ → /ka.ti.ɣoˈri.a/ → /ka.ti.ɣoˈri.a/
Noun
κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱ • (katēgoríā) f (genitive κᾰτηγορῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- charge, accusation
- (logic) predication, category
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “κατηγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατηγορία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κατηγορία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2724 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek.
Noun
κατηγορία • (katigoría) f (plural κατηγορίες)
- category
Άρθρα στην κατηγορία «Ουσιαστικά».- Árthra stin katigoría «Ousiastiká».
- Articles in the category “Nouns”.
- accusation, charge
Η κατηγορία εναντίον μας ήταν …- I katigoría enantíon mas ítan …
- The charge against us was …
Declension
Synonyms
Antonyms
- αβανιά f (avaniá, “false accusation”)
- and see: κατηγορώ (katigoró, “to accuse”)
Descendants