1. cat- + egor- "declaim (in the assembly)" + -ize.
2. 其本意为:speak against, accuse, assert, predicate.
3. Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.
4. 由此进而引申为如今的:种类、范畴、类别。
5. 该词的最初含义在categorical\categorically中还看得到、还保留着。