• n. 種類，分類；[數] 范疇

cata-, 向下，相對。-agora, 廣場，公開說，公開演講，見allegory, 寓言。原指在廣場發表演講，敘述。后古希臘哲學家亞里士多德用該詞描述類別，種類，使之固定為現在的詞義。

category

category: [15] The word category has a rather complicated semantic history. It comes ultimately from Greek katēgorein ‘accuse’, a compound formed from the prefix katá- ‘against’ and agorá ‘public assembly’ (source of English agoraphobia and related to gregarious) – hence ‘speak against publicly’. ‘Accuse’ gradually became weakened in meaning to ‘assert, name’, and the derived noun katēgoríā was applied by Aristotle to the enumeration of all classes of things that can be named – hence ‘category’. The word reached English via late Latin catēgoria or French catégorie.
=> agoraphobia, gregarious, panegyric

category (n.)

1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria "accusation, prediction, category," verbal noun from kategorein "to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate," from kata "down to" (or perhaps "against;" see cata-) + agoreuein "to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly)," from agora "public assembly" (see agora). Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.

category should be used by no-one who is not prepared to state (1) that he does not mean class, & (2) that he knows the difference between the two .... [Fowler]

1. The judges could not decide which category it belonged in.

評委們無法判定它屬于哪一類。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Designer wedding dresses make wedding fashion a separate category from mainstream fashion.

著名設計師設計的婚紗使得婚紗時尚有別于主流服裝時尚。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Over the decade, women in this category went up by 120%.

過去10年，這類女性多了120％。

來自柯林斯例句

4. This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.

這本書很顯然屬于自傳體小說。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Students over 25 fall into a different category .

25歲以上的學生屬另一類。

來自《權威詞典》