Signification

1. participation (the act of participating, of taking part in something)
2. role, part; input, contribution (expressed as a certain amount, which is part of something larger)
3. share, stock (financial instrument)
4. (obsolete) comeuppance; reward or punishment (that what one receives)
5. (obsolete) division of property (part of mobile or immobile owned goods)
6. (obsolete) division (that which has been separated from the rest)
7. (obsolete) interest; sympathy
8. (obsolete) division (formation composed of several regiments or brigades)