part
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
The noun is 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 sell, exchange”). The verb is from Middle English parten, from Old French partir. 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, 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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] 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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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, 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, 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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
- 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:
- 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
HyponymsEdit
HolonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Cantonese: part (paat1), parts (paat1 si2) (From the plural noun form)
- → Japanese: パート (pāto), パーツ (pātsu) (From the plural noun form)
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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- 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, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke ]:
- 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, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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, John 19:24:
- They parted my raiment among them.
- c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
- to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
- 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
- Her friend parted his breakfast — a scanty mess of coffee and some coarse bread — with the child and her grandfather, and inquired whither they were going.
- (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:24:
- They shall part alike.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
- The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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:
- "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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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:
- 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, [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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TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
part (not comparable)
- Fractional; partial.
- Fred was part owner of the car.
TranslationsEdit
AdverbEdit
part (not comparable)
- Partly; partially; fractionally.
- Part finished
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpaɾt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈpart/
- (Central, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈpar/
- (Alghero) IPA(key): /ˈpaɫt/
- Rhymes: -aɾt
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Catalan part, from Latin partus.
NounEdit
part m (plural parts)
- birthing (act of giving birth)
- Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament
- (figuratively) birth of an idea
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Catalan part, from Latin partem, from Proto-Italic *partis.
NounEdit
part f (plural parts)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).
AdjectiveEdit
part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)
NounEdit
part m (plural parts, feminine parta)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “part” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “part”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “part” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “part” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
ChineseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) part, portion, or component of the whole
ClassifierEdit
part
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for part, portion, or component of the whole.
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for the activity of dancing.
- 2001, Shaolin Soccer, spoken by an entourage of Hung (莫偉文):
- 冇嘢睇㗎喇!使唔使我一陣落去跳返part舞頂住啊? [Cantonese, trad.]
- mou5 je5 tai2 gaa3 laa3! sai2 m4 sai2 ngo5 jan1 lok6 heoi3 tiu3 faan1 paat1 mou5 ding2 zyu6 aa1? [Jyutping]
- There's nothing left that is watch-worthy [in this game of soccer]! Do you need me to later go and have a dance down there [in the soccer field] to entertain the audience?
冇嘢睇㗎喇!使唔使我一阵落去跳返part舞顶住啊? [Cantonese, simp.]
Related termsEdit
- parts (paat1 si2)
Etymology 2Edit
From clipping of English partner.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
part
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to partner with
- 2019 October 18, “你願意原諒謝安琪們嗎?”, in Stand News[2], archived from the original on 2021-12-29:
- Part咗麥浚龍,就冇聽過佢為香港人講過一句說話! [Cantonese, trad.]
- paat1 zo2 mak6 zeon3 lung4, zau6 mou5 teng1 gwo3 keoi5 wai6 hoeng1 gong2 jan4 gong2 gwo3 jat1 geoi3 syut3 waa6! [Jyutping]
- Since partnering with Juno Mak, there has been nothing out of her [Kay Tse] mouth in support for the Hong Kongers!
Part咗麦浚龙,就冇听过佢为香港人讲过一句说话! [Cantonese, simp.]
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to partner in doing something
- 2018 May 25, “孖趙勁皓進軍飲食界 陳柏宇擴版圖老婆挺肚支持”, in Sing Pao Daily News[3]:
Related termsEdit
- partner (paat1 naa4, paat1 naa2)
ReferencesEdit
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)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)
DescendantsEdit
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 / pardesse |
inessive | pardis | partides / pardes |
elative | pardist | partidest / pardest |
allative | pardile | partidele / pardele |
adessive | pardil | partidel / pardel |
ablative | pardilt | partidelt / pardelt |
translative | pardiks | partideks / pardeks |
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 quelque chose ― a large proportion of something
- il y a une grande part de fiction dans son récit
- his/her account is highly fictional
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- à part
- à part entière
- autre part
- avoir part
- d'autre part
- de la part de
- de part en part
- de part en part
- de part et d'autre
- de toute part
- de toutes parts
- faire la part belle
- faire la part de
- faire la part des choses
- faire part
- nulle part
- part de marché
- part des anges
- part du gâteau
- part du lion
- part du pauvre
- pour ma part
- pour une part
- prendre part
- quelque part
Related termsEdit
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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
FriulianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin pars, partem.
NounEdit
part f (plural parts)
Related termsEdit
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
- ^ part in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further readingEdit
- part in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
IcelandicEdit
NounEdit
part
LadinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pars, partem.
NounEdit
part f (plural part)
Related termsEdit
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
ReferencesEdit
- “part, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old Polish port, from Proto-Slavic *pъrtъ.
NounEdit
part m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- parcieć impf
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from German Part(e), from Middle High German part, from Old French part, from Latin pars.
NounEdit
part m inan
Alternative formsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
part m or n (feminine singular partă, masculine plural parți, feminine and neuter plural parte)
- Parthian (relating to Parthia)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from Russian парта (parta).
NounEdit
part
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English part, from Old French partir, from Latin partīre.
VerbEdit
part (simple past parthed or parthet)
- to part
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14:
- Outh o'mee hoane ch'ull no part wi' Wathere.
- Out of my hand I'll not part with Walter.
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 90