cat·a·log
or cat·a·logue
(kăt́l-ôǵ, -ŏǵ)
[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.]
noun
- A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.
- A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display: a catalog of fall fashions; a seed catalog.
- 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)
- A card catalog.
verb: -loged or -logued, -log·ing or -logu·ing, -logs or -logues
transitive verb
- To make an itemized list of: catalog a record collection.
- To list or include in a catalog.
- To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system.
intransitive verb
- To make a catalog.
- To be listed in a catalog: an item that catalogs for 200 dollars.
derivatives
- cat́a·loǵer
- noun
