categoria

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kə.tə.ɣuˈɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.te.ɣoˈɾi.a]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

categoria f (plural categories)

1. category

Derived terms

• categoritzar

Further reading

• “categoria”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “categoria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “categoria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “categoria” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ia

• 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

• sottocategoria

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.teːˈɡɔ.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.t̪eˈɡɔː.ri.a]

Noun

catēgoria f (genitive catēgoriae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	catēgoria	catēgoriae
genitive	catēgoriae	catēgoriārum
dative	catēgoriae	catēgoriīs
accusative	catēgoriam	catēgoriās
ablative	catēgoriā	catēgoriīs
vocative	catēgoria	catēgoriae

Descendants

• Portuguese: categoria
• Italian: categoria
• English: categoria
• Aromanian: categoria
• Catalan: categoria
• Ladin: categoria
• Occitan: categoria

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

• IPA^(key): /kateɡuˈria/

Noun

categoria f

1. category

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

categoria f (plural categorias)

1. category

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cathegoria (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.te.ɡoˈɾi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.te.ɡoˈɾi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.te.ɡoˈɾi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.tɨ.ɡuˈɾi.ɐ/ [kɐ.tɨ.ɣuˈɾi.ɐ]

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧te‧go‧ri‧a

Noun

categoria f (plural categorias)

1. category
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 80:

     Assim fallavam alguns indivíduos pertencentes a diversas cathegorias da pequena sociedade da villa de X∗∗∗ […]

     Thus spoke some individuals belonging to various classes of the small society of the town of X∗∗∗ […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:categoria.

Derived terms

• categorizar
• subcategoria

Further reading

• “categoria”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “categoria”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025