category

Significado (Inglês)

1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
2. 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.

Hifenizado como

cat‧e‧go‧ry

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.