catalogue
Meanings
noun
- A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.
- A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.
- A list of all the publications in a library; a library catalogue.
- A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
- A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.
- A directory listing.
- A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.
- A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.
verb
- To put into a catalogue.
- To make a catalogue of.
- To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
- to value or sort stamps using a catalogue
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Etymology
From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.
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