part

Meaning

1. A portion; a component.
2. A portion; a component.
3. A portion; a component.
4. A portion; a component.
5. A portion; a component.
6. A portion; a component.
7. A portion; a component.
8. A portion; a component.
9. A portion; a component.
10. A portion; a component.
11. Duty; responsibility.
12. Duty; responsibility.
13. Duty; responsibility.
14. Duty; responsibility.
15. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
16. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
17. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

portion

section

move apart

component part

𐐹𐐪𐑉𐐻

theatrical role

be included in

be part of

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑːt/

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”)).

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