Listed or organized items in a catalog or systematic record, usually in order or by category.
From 'catalog,' which comes from Greek 'katalogos' (katalegein = 'to list down'). The prefix 'kata-' means 'down' and 'legein' means 'to speak,' so literally 'to speak things down' or list them.
The Greek root literally means 'to speak down,' as if reciting a complete list from top to bottom—exactly what librarians and archivists still do today when organizing collections. This word's structure reveals how ancient Greeks thought about information.
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