part of speech
Noun
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Noun
part of speech
- (grammar) A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
- 1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, p.9:
- PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.
- 1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, p.91:
- 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
- 2008 (1894), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, third edition, reprint by Dover, p.9:
- The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
- 1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, p.9:
- lexical category
- lexical class
- syntactic category
- word class
- French: classe lexicale, partie du discours, classe grammaticale
- German: Redeteil, Sprachteil, Wortart
- Italian: parte del discorso
- Portuguese: classe gramatical
- Russian: часть ре́чи
- Spanish: parte de la oración, parte de oración, categoría gramatical, parte del habla
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