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Vinony

part of speech

noun

  1. grammatical category
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Wiktionary

noun

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

  1. 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.”