categorial

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

categorial (comparative more categorial, superlative most categorial)

1. categorical, absolute, without exception
   • 1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
2. categorical, pertaining to a category
   • 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 55:

     So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.

3. pertaining to categorial grammar

Derived terms

• categorially
• noncategorial
• precategorial
• subcategorial
• transcategorial

 

Romanian

Etymology

From categorie +‎ -al.

Adjective

categorial m or n (feminine singular categorială, masculine plural categoriali, feminine and neuter plural categoriale)

1. categorial

Declension

Declension of categorial

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	categorial		categorială	categoriali	categoriale
	definite	categorialul		categoriala	categorialii	categorialele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	categorial		categoriale	categoriali	categoriale
	definite	categorialului		categorialei	categorialilor	categorialelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kateɡoˈɾjal/ [ka.t̪e.ɣ̞oˈɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ca‧te‧go‧rial

Adjective

categorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural categoriales)

1. categorical

Further reading

• “categorial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28