Parts of Speech

Like English, the Latin language also has eight parts of speech. In this dictionary, they are always color coded.

• Adjective (adj.) modifies a noun or pronoun
• Adverb (adv.) modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
• Conjunction (conj.) connects two words or clauses
• Interjection (interj.) exclamatory word or phrase
• Noun (n.) person, place, or thing
• preposition (prep.) explains relationship between words
• pronoun (pron.) substitute for a noun
• Verb (v.) describes action, occurrence, or state of being