The Russian word "catalog" is found in everyday speech quite often. But are all aspects of its meaning and use known? In this article we will provide information about the origin of this word, its meaning and specify on which syllable the stress falls.
Catalog: word origin
Many words ending in "log" have Greek roots. The "catalog" comes from the Greek word κατάλογος, which is translated into modern Russian as a "list".
The catalog is ...
To clarify the meaning of this ambiguous word, we will open an explanatory dictionary or a dictionary of borrowed words.
The directory is:
- A list or list of any documents or items drawn up in a specific order.
- A list listing any items.
- A file system object on a computer whose function is to facilitate the search for files or folders.
Morphological characteristics, declination
Regardless of the meaning, the catalog is a common inanimate noun of the masculine gender, the second declension.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative case | What? | The first catalog appeared a long time ago. | Catalogs randomly lay on the floor. |
| Genitive | What? | To compile a catalog, you need to collect all the possible information. | There are no directories in this closet. |
| Dative | Why? | To find a little-known star in the sky, you can refer to the star catalog. | At today's lecture and go through the catalogs. |
| Accusative | What? | In so many textbooks, the devil will break his leg, you need to make a catalog. | It's so boring to read and adjust directories. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | Programmers worked all night on the updated directory. | You can’t fix the catalogs here. |
| Prepositional | About what? | The catalog contains all models of the winter collection. | In current directories this is not valid. |
Right stress
The noun “catalog” consists of seven letters and seven sounds, that is, each letter names one sound in this word. Every student is familiar with the rule: "How many vowels - so many syllables." There are three vowels in the noun studied in the article; therefore, it consists of three syllables: ka-ta-log.
If there are more than one syllables, only one of them is stressed, the rest are unstressed.
Remember: in the word "catalog" the stress falls on the third syllable.
Synonyms
Synonyms are words that sound and are written differently, but have the same or similar meaning.
The directory is:
- Price List: You will have to pay everything according to the price list.
- List: Alina and Marina, a list of books about animals should be completed by next Friday.
- List: Please announce the entire list.
- Section: In which section to look for a file with photos?
- Registry: Which button to press to display the registry?
- Index: You can hardly find this information in indexes.
- Enumeration: Enumeration of cities was far from complete.
- Card file: To learn how to make a competent and varied menu, we recommend compiling a card file of dishes that you can cook.
- Prospect: Petr Pavlovich lost prospectuses with information about all the hotels in the city and now did not know where to go.
Phrases with the noun "catalog"
To make competent phrases with any word, you need to have an idea of what other words it is combined with.
Adjectives and participles (which may be a directory):
Full, incomplete, exhaustive, file, new, old, outdated, updated, starry, book, fashion, building, root, current, subordinate, library, book, illustrated, black and white, printed, handwritten, homemade, consolidated, short, long, thematic, general, electronic, paper, whole, detailed, brief, thick, weighty, special, special, noteworthy, ordinary, unremarkable, reprinted, colored, decorated, professional, open, closed, blocked, advertising, foreign , glossy, vintage, working, non-working, current, irrelevant, museum, exhibition, fresh, last year, next, other, last, secret, official, unofficial, large, small, neat, shabby, sealed, torn, rumpled, systematic, haphazard , corporate, simple, grocery, commercial, industrial, textile, general, floral.
Verbs (what can and can be done):
To lie, open, close, help, show, tell, compose, rewrite, study, distinguish, distinguish, print, fill, fill, organize, take, compress, expand.
Numerals (how much, which account):
One, two, ten, twenty seven, first, second, twenty-seventh.
Pronouns (whose, which):
My, yours, him, them, ours, some, none.
Nouns (of which):
Files, flowers, books, models, newspapers, teachers, sweets, dishes, songs, works, weapons, fabrics, materials, artifacts, fossils, films, inventions.