categoria

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

categoria (uncountable)

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

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

categoria f (plural categoriur)

1. category

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

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

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categoria f (plural categories)

1. category

• categoritzar

• “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], April 2007
• “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.

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

• Rhymes: -ia

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

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categoria f (plural categorie)

1. category, topic
2. class

• sottocategoria

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

categoria f (plural categories)

1. category

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

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

catēgoria f (genitive catēgoriae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

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

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /kateɡuˈria/

categoria f

1. category

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

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categoria f (plural categorias)

1. category

• cathegoria (pre-standardization spelling)

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

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

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∗∗∗ […]

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

• “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