A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.
Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.
The Ancient Greek equivalent was ónoma (ὄνομα), referred to by Plato in the Cratylus dialog, and later listed as one of the eight parts of speech in The Art of Grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax (2nd century BC). The term used in Latin grammar was nōmen. All of these terms for "noun" were also words meaning "name". The English word noun is derived from the Latin term, through the Anglo-Norman noun.
The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea.
Adriatic may also refer to:
Revenge is upon us
A catastrophic prophecy
Lightning strikes, mountain of fire
Severe power from the sky in anger
A nature uncontrolled
Chaotic nightmare unfold
Pathetic breed in danger
Enhancing the fear of the future
Burning, drying, dead baby
Lying in the desert miserably
A monument of the path followed
Example of inhumanity
Too late to react
Too strong to attack
Elements united in terror
Destitution of believes
Desecration of hopes
Unconscious degradation
Irreversible process
Furious purge
Carnage of biblical proportion
A sphere rotten and consumed
Fruit of life killed from its roots
Broken tree from witch the seed remains
A social holocaust
Fatal retribution
Movement marking history