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part

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slīfan (“to split”)).

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NounEdit

part (plural parts)

  1. A portion; a component.
    1. A fraction of a whole. syn. transl.
      Gaul is divided into three parts.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
        Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
      • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
        America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
    2. A distinct element of something larger.
      The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
        It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
      • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
        A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
    3. A group inside a larger group. syn. transl.
    4. Share, especially of a profit.
      I want my part of the bounty.
    5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
      The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
    6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
    7. A section of a document.
      Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
    8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
    9. (mathematics, dated) A factor.
      3 is a part of 12.
    10. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
  2. Duty; responsibility.
    to do one’s part
    1. Position or role (especially in a play).
      We all have a part to play.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
        We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
        He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
    2. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
      The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
    3. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
      • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
        , II.15:
        the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part, that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.
      • Bible, Mark, ix.40:
        He that is not against us is on our part.
      • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Waller
        Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
  3. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. syn. transl.
    The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  4. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. syn.
  5. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Burke
      men of considerable parts
    • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay
      great quickness of parts
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      […] which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.

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VerbEdit

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

  1. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Anthony Trollope
      It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Andrew Reed
      There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear [1]
    • (Can we date this quote?) George Eliot
      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.
  6. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
  7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
    • Bible, Luke xxiv. 51
      While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
      The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0124:
      "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
  8. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
    to part gold from silver
    • (Can we date this quote?) Matthew Prior
      The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.
  10. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
  11. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
    • 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
      He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!" […] so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do […] maybe talk […] so we did […] since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

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part (not comparable)

  1. Fractional; partial.
    Fred was part owner of the car.

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partial — see partial

AdverbEdit

part (not comparable)

  1. Partly; partially; fractionally.
    Part finished

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partially — see partially

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Etymology 1Edit

From Latin partus.

NounEdit

part m (plural parts)

  1. birthing (act of giving birth)
  2. (figuratively) birth of an idea

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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Occitan part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

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part f (plural parts)

  1. part, portion

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Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).

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part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)

  1. Parthian

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part m (plural parts, feminine parta)

  1. Parthian

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin pars

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part m

  1. part (the melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece)

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part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)

  1. part

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Onomatopoetic. Cognate to Votic partti. Probably the same root as in parisema (“to thud with pauses”).

NounEdit

part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)

  1. duck

DeclensionEdit

Declension of part (type riik)
singular plural
nominative part pardid
genitive pardi partide
partitive parti parte / partisid
illative parti / pardisse partidesse
inessive pardis partides
elative pardist partidest
allative pardile partidele
adessive pardil partidel
ablative pardilt partidelt
translative pardiks partideks
terminative pardini partideni
essive pardina partidena
abessive pardita partideta
comitative pardiga partidega

FaroeseEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

NounEdit

part f (plural parts)

  1. share
    une grande part ― a large share
  2. portion, part
    une grande part de tarte ― a large portion of cake
    pour ma part ― for my part, as far as I'm concerned, as for me
    pour la part de mon ami
    as far as my friend's concerned, as for my friend
  3. proportion
    une grande part de qch ― a large proportion of something
    il y a une grande part de fiction dans son récit
    his/her account is highly fictional
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Etymology 2Edit

Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

VerbEdit

part

  1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

Etymology 3Edit

From Latin partus.

NounEdit

part m (plural parts)

  1. newborn

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FriulianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin pars, partem.

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part f (plural parts)

  1. part

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Etymology 2Edit

From Latin partus.

NounEdit

part m (plural parts)

  1. delivery, birth, childbirth

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian, from Latin portus. Compare Italian porto (“port, harbour”).[1]

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NounEdit

part (plural partok)

  1. shore, coast, bank, beach

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative part partok
accusative partot partokat
dative partnak partoknak
instrumental parttal partokkal
causal-final partért partokért
translative parttá partokká
terminative partig partokig
essive-formal partként partokként
essive-modal — —
inessive partban partokban
superessive parton partokon
adessive partnál partoknál
illative partba partokba
sublative partra partokra
allative parthoz partokhoz
elative partból partokból
delative partról partokról
ablative parttól partoktól
Possessive forms of part
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. partom partjaim
2nd person sing. partod partjaid
3rd person sing. partja partjai
1st person plural partunk partjaink
2nd person plural partotok partjaitok
3rd person plural partjuk partjaik

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Further readingEdit

  • part in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

IcelandicEdit

LadinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Latin pars, partem.

NounEdit

part f (plural part)

  1. part

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Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French part and Old English part, both from Latin partem, accusative singular of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.

NounEdit

part (plural partes)

  1. part

DescendantsEdit

  • English: part
  • Scots: pairt

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.

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part c

  1. part, piece
  2. party (law: person), stakeholder
    att vara part i målet
    to have a stake in the claim, to partial, to be biased
    arbetsmarknadens parter
    the stakeholders of the labour market, i.e. trade unions and employers' organizations

DeclensionEdit

Declension of part 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative part parten parter parterna
Genitive parts partens parters parternas

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VepsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Russian парта (parta).

NounEdit

part

  1. bench
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