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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: pars orationis 'part of speech'

parse

 verb
     
Related topics: Grammar
parse [transitive]
technicalSLG to describe the grammar of a word when it is in a particular sentence, or the grammar of the whole sentence
—parser noun [countable]
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