categorize

English

Alternative forms

• categorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.?

Proto-Hellenic *kətá

Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ)

Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂

Proto-Hellenic *agorā́

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́)

Pre-Greekder.?

Proto-Hellenic *-eús

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)

Ancient Greek ἀγορεύω (agoreúō)

Ancient Greek κᾰτήγορος (kătḗgoros)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορέω (kătēgoréō)

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Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría)bor.

Late Latin catēgoriader.

Middle French categorie

French catégoriebor.

Middle English

English category

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English categorize

From category + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəɡəˌɹaɪz/, [ˈkæɾəɡəˌɹaɪz], /ˈkætəɡɔˌɹaɪz/

  • Audio (North Carolina):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹɑez/, [ˈkæɾɪɡəˌɹɑe̯z]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛtəɡəˌɹɑe̯z], [ˈkɛtəˌɡɹɑe̯z], [ˈkɛɾəɡəˌɹɑe̯z], [ˈkɛɾəˌɡɹɑe̯z]

Verb

categorize (third-person singular simple present categorizes, present participle categorizing, simple past and past participle categorized) (American and Oxford British spelling)

1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

   First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:classify

Derived terms

• autocategorize
• categorizable
• categorizer
• decategorize
• miscategorize
• overcategorize
• recategorize
• subcategorize
• uncategorize

Related terms

• category
• categorisation
• categorization

Translations

to assign a category

• Armenian: դասակարգել (hy) (dasakargel)
• Catalan: categoritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分類 / 分类 (zh) (fēnlèi)

• Czech: kategorizovat (cs)
• Danish: kategorisere (da)
• Esperanto: kategoriigi
• Finnish: luokitella (fi)
• French: classer (fr), classifier (fr), catégoriser (fr)
• Galician: categorizar
• German: kategorisieren (de)
• Greek: ταξινομώ (el) (taxinomó), κατηγοριοποιώ (el) (katigoriopoió)
• Hebrew: קטלג (qitlég), סִוֵּג (he) (sivvég)
• Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh)
• Icelandic: flokka, draga í dilka
• Ido: klasigar (io), kategoriizar (io)
• Italian: categorizzare (it)
• Japanese: 分類する (ja) (ぶんるいする, bunrui suru)
• Māori: whakarōpū, whakakāwai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kategorisere

  Nynorsk: kategorisere

• Portuguese: categorizar (pt)
• Romanian: categorisi (ro)
• Russian: классифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (klassificírovatʹ), категоризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kategorizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: categorizar (es)
• Swedish: kategorisera (sv)

Galician

Verb

categorize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

categorize

1. inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative