different between attendee vs participate

English

Etymology

attend +? -ee

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
   • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law ?3 dated December 25, 2000

     During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
2. A visitor or participant of an event.
   • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11

     O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.

3. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Synonyms

• (participant in an event): audience (member), participant
• (person in attendance): attender, audience (member)

Attender was originally the only word for a person attending. As with most nouns formed from verbs, as payer, trainer, employer, it was the receiver of action that was formed with -ee, as with payee, trainee, employee. In the 1980s with the advent of spell-checkers, the word attender was erroneously flagged as misspelled and attendee was its replacement. Since then attender is no longer in popular usage.

Related terms

• attendant

Translations

References

Anagrams

• edentate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin participare (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”), from particeps (“taking part in, sharing in”), from pars (“part”) + capi? (“to take”); see part and capable.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???t?s?pe?t/
• (General American) enPR: pär-t?s??-p?t, IPA^(key): /p???t?s?pe?t/

Verb

participate (third-person singular simple present participates, present participle participating, simple past and past participle participated)

1. (intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete, transitive) To share, share in (something). [16th-19th c.]
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1,^[2]

     A spirit I am indeed;

     But am in that dimension grossly clad

     Which from the womb I did participate.

   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Africa & Asia the Great, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, Book I, p. 52,^[3]

     [The Persees] are tollerated all sorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongst whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog flesh: they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 109,^[4]

     In what country on the globe is it, that in the class of mankind doomed to labour, we shall not find tribes, the women of which participate the toils of the men?

3. (obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105,^[5]

     Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances.

Related terms

• participant
• participation
• participative
• participator
• participatory
• participial
• participle

Translations

Adjective

participate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, I. i. 101:

     And, mutually participate, did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.

Further reading

• participate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• participate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “participate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

particip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of particip?