part of speech

Meaning

A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

Synonyms

grammatical form

grammatical class

lexical class

flexemic class

Translations

Wortklasse

μέρος του λόγου

parte de oración

catégorie lexicale

catégorie grammaticale

méros tou lógou

Etymology

In summary

From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.

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