different between convention vs parley

English

Etymology

Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/

Noun

convention (plural conventions)

1. A meeting or gathering.
2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

3. The convening of a formal meeting.
4. A formal agreement, contract or pact.
5. (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

   • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
     placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
     (40)      VP ? V AP (PP)
     (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
     optional.)

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Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v??.sj??/

Noun

convention f (plural conventions)

1. convention, agreement
2. convention (formal meeting)

3. convention (conventionally standardised choice)

Derived terms

• convention collective

Related terms

• conventionalisme m
• conventionnel
• conventionner
• convenir

Further reading

• “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabol?, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (parabol?), from ???? (pará, “beside”) with ???? (bol?, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??li/, /?p??le?/
• (some non-rhotic accents) IPA^(key): /?p??l?/

Noun

parley (countable and uncountable, plural parleys)

1. A conference, especially one between enemies.
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV

     Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with parlay (“bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward”).

Translations

Verb

parley (third-person singular simple present parleys, present participle parleying, simple past and past participle parleyed)

1. (intransitive) To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     [...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ?hot, fled amaine and left us [...]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with parlay (“to carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers; to increase (an asset, money, etc.) by gambling or investing in a daring manner; to convert (a situation, thing, etc.) into something better”).

Alternative forms

• parlay

Translations

See also

• parle

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “parley”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Player, Rapley, pearly, player, prelay, replay