Vita:Szófaj

Names

Please excuse me using English, my Hungarian isn't good to phrase the following.

Regarding "Később a görög grammatikákban megjelent a nyolcas szófaji osztás" which should mean something like "Greek grammerians had 8 parts of speech": Dionysius Thrax had 8 parts of speech ("τοῦ δὲ λόγου μέρη ἐστὶν ὀκτώ" etc.). But still he could have had a name for the adjective (nomen adjectivum; melléknév), which is a sub-category of the noun (nomen; név, névszó), and other Greek grammarians could have had other parts of speech. Dictionaries mention Greek terms for the adverb (cf. zeno.org/Pape-1880/A/ἐπι-φώνημα , or logeion.uchicago.edu/index.html#ἐπιφώνημα and http://logeion.uchicago.edu/index.html#ἐπίφθεγμα )
While it is correct, that Ancient Romans didn't differ between I and J, it is also correct that they didn't differ between U and V. That is, Ancient Roman spellings were like "VERBVM" and "ADIECTIVVM". When changing that into small letters, V is nowadays usually replaced by u, which gives uerbum and adiectiuum (instead of verbvm and adiectivvm). Thus verbum and adiectivum aren't classical spellings, too. Moreover, it is easy to replace all j by i and all v by u, while it is not easy to replace some i by j and some u by v. So it's better to use the forms verbum and adjectivum.

-2016. január 28., 21:06 (CET)