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