The human being is determined as ζῷον λóγον ἔχον [zoon logon echon], a “living being,” though not in accordance with the modern biological concept. [...] Ἔχον is to be understood in the determination ζῷον λóγον ἔχον in a fully fundamental sense. Ἔχειν is determined in Book Δ, Chapter 23 of the Metaphysics as ἄγειν, “to conduct” a matter, to be in a way because of a “drive” that originates from this way of being. Language is possessed, is spoken, in such a way that speaking belongs to the genuine drive of being of the human being. Living, for the human being, means speaking. Thus this preliminary clarification of λóγος [logos] refers to a being-context that is preliminarily described as the life of the human being. [Heidegger  , GA18:21]

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LÉXICO: propriedade; próprio; v. echon