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parle

See also: parlé and pärle

English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō.

Noun

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parle (countable and uncountable, plural parles)

  1. (obsolete) Parley; talk.
    • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 21, columns 1–2:
      Iul[ia]. Of all the faire reſort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthieſt loue?
  2. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.

Verb

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parle (third-person singular simple present parles, present participle parling, simple past and past participle parled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To talk; to converse; to parley.

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French

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parle

  1. inflection of parler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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parle

  1. inflection of parlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle English

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Verb

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parle

  1. Alternative form of parlen

Portuguese

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parle

  1. inflection of parlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɾle/ [ˈpaɾ.le]
  • Rhymes: -aɾle
  • Syllabification: par‧le

Verb

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parle

  1. inflection of parlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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