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category
- For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization.
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin cat?goria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?goría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?kæt?????i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæt??(?)?i/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?k?t??(?)?i/, /?k?t???o??i/
- Hyphenation: cat?e?go?ry, cat?e?gory
Noun
category (plural categories)
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners.
- (mathematics) 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.
Synonyms
- (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- category in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- category in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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caste
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus.Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *???????????????????? (*kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käst, IPA(key): /k??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kæst/
- Homophones: cast, karst (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
caste (plural castes)
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
- Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
Derived terms
- casteless
Translations
Anagrams
- Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces
Dutch
Verb
caste
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of casten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin, or alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.
Noun
caste f (plural castes)
- caste (hereditary class)
- class (social position)
References
- “caste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- casta
Etymology
Probably from Gothic *???????????????????? (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kaste?/
Noun
caste f (plural castes)
- species, race or kind
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:
- Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.
- Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world
- Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:
- quality
- 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:
- Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come
- He readily told me that the animal [that I was selling] either was of bad quality, or either it didn't eat
- Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come
- 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:
- progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:
- { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.
- {I am called Peter Lights...} —Wo wo wo! Let us be careful: a man with that name could de a Devil's child.
- { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.
- Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:
Derived terms
- castizar (“to mate”)
- castizo (“stud pig”)
- de caste (“selected”)
References
- “caste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “caste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “caste” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Adjective
caste
- feminine plural of casto
Noun
caste f
- plural of casta
Anagrams
- cesta
Latin
Etymology 1
From castus +? -?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kas.te?/, [?käs?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]
Adverb
cast? (comparative castius, superlative castissim?)
- purely, spotlessly, virtuously
- piously, religiously
Etymology 2
Inflected form of castus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?käs?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]
Adjective
caste
- vocative masculine singular of castus
References
- caste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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