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- Latin · derived frompars ōrātiōnis
- Middle English · inherited fromparte of spech
- English todaypart of speech
From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
part of speech
Today it means: A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb. Full definition →
Middle English parte of spech ← Latin pars ōrātiōnis