categoria

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cătēgŏrĭa, ae, f., = κατηγορία (postclass.).

I An accusation , Hier. Ep. 82, 9; Macr. S. 7, 3 (where others write it as a Greek word).—

II In logic, a predicament , category or class of predicables (pure Lat. praedicamenta): Aristotelicae, Isid. Orig. 2, 26, 1; Sid. Ep. 4, 1: Aristotelica quaedam, quas appellat decem categorias, Aug. Conf. 4, 16; Serg. Expl. in Art. Don. p. 487, 25 Keil.