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cat⋅a⋅logue

[kat-l-awg, -og]
–noun, adjective, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -logued, -logu⋅ing.
catalog.

cat⋅a⋅logu⋅ist, noun
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cat·a·log or cat·a·logue   (kāt'l-ôg', -ŏg')   
n.  
    1. A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.

    2. A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display: a catalog of fall fashions; a seed catalog.

  1. A list or enumeration: "the long catalogue of his concerns: unemployment, housing, race, drugs, the decay of the inner city, the environment and family life" (Anthony Holden).

  2. A card catalog.

v.   cat·a·loged or cat·a·logued, cat·a·log·ing or cat·a·logu·ing, cat·a·logs or cat·a·logues

v.   tr.
  1. To make an itemized list of: catalog a record collection.

    1. To list or include in a catalog.

    2. To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system.

v.   intr.
  1. To make a catalog.

  2. To be listed in a catalog: an item that catalogs for 200 dollars.


[Middle English cathaloge, list, register, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein, to list : kata-, down, off; see cata- + legein, to count; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]
cat'a·log'er, cat'a·logu'er n.
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Word Origin & History

catalogue 
1460, from L.L. catalogus, from Gk. katalogos "a list, register," from kata "down, completely" + legein "to say, count" (see lecture). The verb is first attested 1598.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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