English - Etymology

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to cut, bore”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”)), Middle English dale (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”)), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slīfan (“to split”)).

English - Pronunciation

• (UK, Australia) IPA^(key): /pɑːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

English - Noun

part (plural parts)

1. (heading) A portion; a component.
   1. A fraction of a whole. ^syn.

English - Verb

part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

1. (intransitive) To leave.
   • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

     He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

   • Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

     It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

   • George Eliot (1819-1880)

     his precious bag, which he would by no means part from

2. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
3. (transitive) To divide in two.

   to part the curtains

   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

     I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.

4. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.

   A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.

5. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:

     He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.

   • Bible, John xix. 24

     They parted my raiment among them.

   • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

     to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:

     He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state

English - Adjective

part (not comparable)

1. Fractional; partial.

   Fred was part owner of the car.

Translations

• (fractional, partial): See partial.

English - Adverb

part (not comparable)

1. Partly; partially; fractionally.

   Part finished

Derived terms

• part-finance
• take part

Translations

• (partially, fractionally): See partially.

English - External Links

• part in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• part in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

English - Anagrams

• prat, rapt, tarp, trap

Catalan - Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾt/
• (Alghero) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɫt/

Catalan - Etymology 1

From Latin partus.

Noun

part

Catalan - Etymology 2

From Latin partem, accusative of pars.

Noun

part

Catalan - Etymology 3

From Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).

Adjective

part

Dutch - Noun

part

Estonian - Noun

part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)

1. duck

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese - Noun

part

French - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ/

French - Etymology 1

From Latin pars, partem.

Noun

part

French - Etymology 2

Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

Verb

part

1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

French - Etymology 3

From Latin partus.

Noun

part

French - External Links

• “part” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian - Etymology 1

From Latin pars, partem.

Friulian - Noun

part

Friulian - Etymology 2

From Latin partus.

Hungarian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒrt/
• Hyphenation: part

Hungarian - Noun

part (plural partok)

1. shore, bank, beach

Declension

Derived terms

• folyópart
• óceánpart
• patakpart
• rakpart
• rakodópart
• tengerpart
• tópart
• vízpart

Ladin - Alternative Forms

• pert

Ladin - Etymology

From Latin pars, partem.

Ladin - Noun

part

Swedish - Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.

Swedish - Noun

part

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