syncategorema

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The term syncategorema comes from a famous passage of Priscian in his Institutiones grammatice II, 15, in which a distinction is made between two types of wordclasses (partes orationis) distinguished by logicians, viz. nouns and verbs on the one hand, and syncategoremata, or consignificantia, on the other.

Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007