Category:Catalan terms by etymology

Catalan terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Catalan apocopic forms: Catalan words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Catalan back-formations: Catalan terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Catalan blends: Catalan terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Catalan borrowed terms: Catalan terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Catalan calques: Catalan calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Catalan compound terms: Catalan terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Catalan coordinated pairs: Terms in Catalan consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Catalan deverbals: Catalan terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Catalan doublets: Catalan terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
• Category:Catalan ellipses: Catalan terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Catalan eponyms: Catalan terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Catalan genericized trademarks: Catalan terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
• Category:Catalan inherited terms: Catalan terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Catalan terms by interfix: Catalan terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Catalan internationalisms: Catalan loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Catalan words derived through metathesis: Catalan words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Catalan metonyms: Catalan terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
• Category:Catalan neologisms: Catalan terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Catalan onomatopoeias: Catalan terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Catalan partial calques: Catalan partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Catalan terms by prefix: Catalan terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Catalan rebracketings: Catalan terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Catalan reduplications: Catalan terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Catalan retronyms: Catalan terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Catalan semantic loans: Catalan semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Catalan sound-symbolic terms: Catalan terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:Catalan terms by suffix: Catalan terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Catalan terms attributed to a specific source: Catalan terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Catalan terms derived from other languages: Catalan terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Catalan terms derived from toponyms: Catalan terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Catalan univerbations: Catalan terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Catalan terms with unknown etymologies: Catalan terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.