The Greek word katēgoría came to late Latin as a category , which passed into our language as a category . A category is called a class , a type , a condition or a division of something .
For example: “If next year I get a promotion in my job, I will earn more money” , “There are teams in the second category of local soccer that have a very good level” , “The Argentine athlete won the gold medal in the category of up to 48 kilograms .
In the work or professional field, people are usually divided into categories according to their abilities , responsibilities and seniority in the position. The different categories, in turn, involve receiving different remunerations. A teacher with an assistant category, to cite one case, earns less than another with a tenured category.
Precisely within the professional field, categories are important to determine the contribution group to which employees belong and, therefore, to set their salary. Thus, as a general rule, we speak of categories such as the following: engineers and graduates, qualified assistants, administrative heads, non-qualified assistants, administrative officers, subordinates, administrative assistants...
Sports also often use categories to organize their competitions . In soccer, there are tournaments of various categories or divisions. The most important category is usually known as A or Primera División . In boxing, judo and other contact disciplines, athletes compete in categories determined by weight.
Within the scope of Language, we find the so-called grammatical categories. These are the classifications of words that are made based on the work they perform within a sentence. In this way, we come across some such as the following categories:
-Nouns, which are those words that are responsible for naming or designating objects or people. They can be classified in turn into various categories such as concrete, proper, abstract, improper, individual...
-Adjectives, which are the words that accompany and determine the noun. They can be qualifiers, possessives, interrogatives, numerals, demonstratives...
-Articles, which accompany a noun they state. It should be noted that they have to match that one both in gender and number.
-Pronouns, which are identified by being the words that replace the noun. They are classified as interrogative, possessive, indefinite...
-Prepositions, which are words that lack meaning at a lexical level.
-Conjunctions, which are invariable like prepositions and are responsible for indicating the relationship that exists between two or more sentences or words.
-Verbs, which are the words that are responsible for establishing and indicating the action that occurs in the sentence.
Category, on the other hand, is used as a synonym for quality : “Tomorrow we will go to dinner at a high-class restaurant,” “The money was only enough for us to sleep in a low-class hotel,” “The category of this liquor is indisputable.” ” .
Grammar (as a way of classifying words) and philosophy (as an entity, notion or concept of a general and abstract nature) also appeal to the idea of category.