Kategooriate

Kategooriate is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun kategooria, meaning “of categories” or the relational sense “categories.” It appears in phrases and compounds where the noun governs another element, such as tootekategooriate nimekiri (a list of product categories), kategooriate hierarhia (a hierarchy of categories) and kategooriate loomine (the creation of categories).

Etymology: Kategooria is a loanword adopted into Estonian from Latin categoria, likely via other European languages. The word has become an established part of Estonian vocabulary for organizing information and objects into groups.

Morphology and usage: In Estonian, the genitive plural form kategooriate is used to indicate possession or relation with multiple categories and to form compound expressions with other nouns. It is common in technical, library, museum, e-commerce and knowledge-management contexts, where items are grouped or classified into distinct categories.

Examples and contexts: Typical collocations include kategooriate arv (the number of categories), kategooriate lisamine (adding categories) and kategooriate hierarhia (the hierarchy of categories). The form is especially frequent in documentation, data schemas, and user interfaces that rely on category tagging and organization.

See also: kategooria, the singular; kategooriad, the nominative plural; and general discussions of categories in Estonian language resources and information-management documentation.