Talk:μέρος


 * why not translate "τοῦ δὲ λόγου μέρη ἐστὶν ὀκτώ" by "there are eight parts of speech"? This seems like an accurate equivalent. --Barytonesis (talk) 22:37, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that is an interesting point. I suppose the English phrase must come from the Greek. I guess my translation is wrong, as the word for "word" seems to be . I could be misunderstanding the meaning of the word then. — Eru·tuon 22:48, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * < (by calque) < (by calque) ? It seems further confirmed by the fact that Modern Greek uses  (cf. ) as well. --Barytonesis (talk) 11:12, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Exactly. I've found a few other grammatical calques that weren't mentioned by the OED even:, for one. — Eru·tuon 13:07, 14 September 2017 (UTC)