lexical category

English

Etymology

From lexical +‎ category.

Noun

lexical category (plural lexical categories)

1. (linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

   Synonyms: word class, lexical class, part of speech

   Hyponym: lexical item

Translations

linguistic category of words

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞彙範疇 / 词汇范畴 (cíhuì fànchóu), 詞類 / 词类 (zh) (cílèi), 詞性 / 词性 (zh) (cíxìng)

• Czech: slovní druh (cs) m
• Finnish: sanaluokka (fi)
• French: partie du discours (fr) f, catégorie lexicale (fr) f, classe lexicale (fr) f, nature (fr) f
• Hungarian: szófaj (hu)
• Japanese: 品詞 (ja) (hinshi)
• Korean: 품사 (ko) (pumsa)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can