part of speech

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from pars ōrātiōnis

Definitions

  1. A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic…

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

    • PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for part of speech. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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