parboil
English
Etymology
From Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“I boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.[1]
Verb
parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled)
Translations
partially boil
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