Assertion: noun | /r/HasProperty | ónoma
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text: Noun (ónoma): a part of speech inflected for case, signifying a concrete or abstract entity Verb (rhêma): a part of speech without case inflection, but inflected for tense, person and number, signifying an activity or process performed or undergone Participle (metokhḗ): a part of speech sharing features of the verb and the noun Article (árthron): a declinable part of speech, taken to include the definite article, but also the basic relative pronoun Pronoun (antōnymíā): a part of speech substitutable for a noun and marked for a person Preposition (próthesis): a part of speech placed before other words in composition and in syntax Adverb (epírrhēma): a part of speech without inflection, in modification of or in addition to a verb, adjective, clause, sentence, or other adverb Conjunction (sýndesmos): a part of speech binding together the discourse and filling gaps in its interpretation
text: A century or two after the work of Nirukta, the Greek scholar Plato wrote in his Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs [rhêma] and nouns [ónoma]".