English
anticategory
From anti- + category.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’
English anti-
Ancient Greek κᾰτηγορέω ‘I accuse’
Ancient Greek κατηγορία ‘charge; head of predicables’
Late Latin catēgoria ‘class of predicables’
Middle French categorie
French catégorie
English category
Today it means
noun A category that stands in opposition to another category, or that defies the usual conventions of categories.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / anticategory