part of speech

part of speech

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin pars orationis

Pronunciation

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Noun

part of speech (plural parts of speech)

1. (grammar) A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
   • 1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, p.9:

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

   • 1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, p.91:

     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.

   • 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 269:

     One group of substantives, the gerunds (scolding), belongs to a form-class with infinitives and with other verb-forms, in serving as head for certain types of modifiers, such as a goal (scolding the boys). For this reason a system of parts of speech in a language like English cannot be set up in any fully satisfactory way: our list of parts of speech will depend upon which functions we take to be the most important.

   • 2008 (1894), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, third edition, reprint by Dover, p.9:

     The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecy010, page 489:

     Following this, coding was added to delineate multiple senses within entries and nested terms within entries; then part of speech labels were added for every sense[.]

Synonyms

• lexical category
• lexical class
• syntactic category
• word class

 

Translations

the function a word or phrase performs

Albanian: pjesë e ligjëratës f Arabic: جُزْء الْكَلَام‎ m (juzʾ al-kalām) Armenian: խոսքի մաս (hy) (xoskʿi mas) Azerbaijani: nitq hissəsi Bashkir: һүҙ төркөмө (hüð törkömö) Belarusian: часці́на мо́вы f (čascína móvy) Bengali: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: част на речта́ f (čast na rečtá) Burmese: ဝါစင်္ဂ (my) (wacangga.) Chinese: Mandarin: 詞類／词类 (zh) (cílèi), 詞性／词性 (zh) (cíxìng) Czech: slovní druh (cs) m Danish: ordklasse (da) c Dutch: woordsoort (nl) f Esperanto: parolparto, vortospeco, vorto-speco, vortspeco Estonian: sõnaliik Finnish: sanaluokka (fi) French: classe lexicale (fr) f, partie du discours (fr) f, classe grammaticale (fr) f Georgian: მეტყველების ნაწილი (meṭq̇velebis nac̣ili) German: Wortart (de) f, Wortklasse (de) f, rare: Redeteil (de) m, rare: Sprachteil m Middle High German: teil der red Greek: Ancient: μέρος τοῦ λόγου n (méros toû lógou) Modern: μέρος του λόγου (el) n (méros tou lógou) Hebrew: חֵלֶק דיבור‎ m (khélek dibúr) Hindi: शब्द भेद (śabd bhed) Hungarian: szófaj (hu) Icelandic: orðflokkur m Indonesian: kelas kata (id) Irish: roinn chainte Old Irish: rann insce f Italian: parte del discorso (it) f Japanese: 品詞 (ja) (ひんし, hinshi) Kapampangan: dake ning pamiyalita Kazakh: сөз табы (kk) (söz taby) Khmer: ថ្នាក់ពាក្យ (thnakpiək) Korean: 품사 (ko) (pumsa) Lao: ວະຈີວິພາກ (wa chī wi phāk), ໂສດ (sōt) Latin: pars ōrātiōnis (la) f Latvian: vārdšķira f Lithuanian: kalbos dalis (lt) f Macedonian: зборовна група f (zborovna grupa) Malay: golongan kata Mongolian: үгсийн аймаг (mn) (ügsiin ajmag) Norwegian: ordklasse (no) Persian: ادات سخن‎ (adât-e soxan), نوع کلمه‎ (now'-e kalame) Polish: część mowy (pl) f Portuguese: classe gramatical (pt) f Romanian: parte de vorbire (ro) f Russian: часть ре́чи (ru) f (častʹ réči) Rusyn: часть ре́чі f (častʹ réči) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: врста речи f Roman: vrsta riječi f, vrsta reči f Slovak: slovný druh m Slovene: besedna vrsta f Spanish: parte de la oración (es) f, parte de oración f, categoría gramatical (es) f, parte del habla f Swedish: ordklass (sv) c Tagalog: bahagi ng pananalita Tajik: ҳиссаҳои нутқ (tg) (hissahoyi nutq) Tatar: сүз төркеме (tt) (süz törkeme) Telugu: భాషాభాగము (bhāṣābhāgamu) Thai: วจีวิภาค Turkish: sözcük türü (tr) Ukrainian: части́на мови (uk) f (častýna movy) Vietnamese: từ loại (vi) Welsh: rhan ymadrodd (cy) f, dosbarth geiriol m Yakut: саҥа чааһа (saŋa çaaha) Yiddish: ווערטערקלאַס‎ m (verterklas)

See also

• (parts of speech) part of speech; adjective, adnoun, adverb, article, conjunction, determiner, interjection, noun, noun adjective, noun substantive, number, numeral, particle, participle, postposition, preposition, pronoun, substantive, verb; action word, connecting word, describing word, description word, name word, naming word ^{(Category: en:Parts of speech)}