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”)).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɑːt/
- (General American) enPR: pärt, IPA(key): /pɑɹt/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɐːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
NounEdit
part (plural parts)
- A portion; a component.
- A fraction of a whole.
- 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.
- 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.
- A group inside a larger group.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- I want my part of the bounty.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- A section of a document.
- Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VI:
- […] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.
- (mathematics, dated) A factor.
- 3 is a part of 12.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- to do one’s part
- 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.
- (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.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821, page 356:
- Meaning to to gaine thereby, that the fruition of life, cannot perfectly be pleaſing vnto vs, if we ſtand in any feare to looſe it. A man might nevertheleſſe ſay on the contrarie part, that we embrace and claſp this good ſo much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be leſſe ſure, and feare it ſhould be taken from vs.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Mark 9:40:
- He that is not against us is on our part.
- 1650, Edmund Waller, to my Lady Morton (epistle)
- Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
- which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- men of considerable parts
- 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:
- great quickness of parts
SynonymsEdit
- (action of a whole): piece, portion, component, element
- (group within a larger group): faction, party
- (position or role): position, role
- (hair dividing line): parting (UK), shed, shoad/shode
- (Hebrew calendar unit): chelek
- See also Thesaurus:part
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DescendantsEdit
- → Japanese: パート (pāto)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:
- He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
- It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
- 1841, Andrew Reed, The is an Hour when I must Part [1]
- There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear
- 1860, George Eliot, Recollections of Italy
- his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
- To cut hair with a parting; shed.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
- A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto X:
- He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 19:24:
- They parted my raiment among them.
- 1703, Alexander Pope, transl., “The Thebais of Statius”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, London: H. Lintont et al., published 1751:
- to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
- (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 30:24:
- They shall part alike.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene viii]:
- The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 24:51:
- While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- 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. […]."
- (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:
- The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- to part gold from silver
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], OCLC 5634253:
- The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.
- (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- since presently your souls must part your bodies
- (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).
- 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
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AdjectiveEdit
part (not comparable)
- Fractional; partial.
- Fred was part owner of the car.
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AdverbEdit
part (not comparable)
- Partly; partially; fractionally.
- Part finished
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ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- part at OneLook Dictionary Search
- part in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- part in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
part m (plural parts)
- birthing (act of giving birth)
- Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament
- (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.
NounEdit
part f (plural parts)
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Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).
AdjectiveEdit
part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)
NounEdit
part m (plural parts, feminine parta)
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Further readingEdit
- “part” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “part” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part m
- 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 in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- part in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Onomatopoetic. Cognate to Votic partti. Probably the same root as in parisema (“to thud with pauses”).
NounEdit
part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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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
NounEdit
part m
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
NounEdit
part f (plural parts)
- share
- une grande part ― a large share
- portion, part, slice
- 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
- 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
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
part m (plural parts)
Further readingEdit
- “part” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin pars, partem.
NounEdit
part f (plural parts)
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Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
part m (plural parts)
See alsoEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian, from Latin portus. Compare Italian porto (“port, harbour”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part (plural partok)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
parté | partoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
partéi | partokéi |
Possessive forms of part | ||
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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 |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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 (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
IcelandicEdit
NounEdit
part
LadinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pars, partem.
NounEdit
part f (plural 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)
DescendantsEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part c
- part, piece
- 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 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | part | parten | parter | parterna |
Genitive | parts | partens | parters | parternas |
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AnagramsEdit
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from Russian парта (parta).
NounEdit
part