different between counterpart vs correspondent

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1451, originally as countre part "duplicate of a legal document", from Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of part?re (“to divide”)). Equivalent to counter- +? part.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/

Noun

counterpart (plural counterparts)

1. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

   Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
2. (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
3. One which resembles another
4. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
5. (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.

Synonyms

• equivalent
• homolog
• opposite number
• pendant

Related terms

• counterbalance
• counterpoint
• countersign
• counterweight
• complement
• partner

Translations

Verb

counterpart (third-person singular simple present counterparts, present participle counterparting, simple past and past participle counterparted)

1. Counterbalance.

English

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspond?ns, present participle of corresponde?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/

Adjective

correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

Translations

Noun

correspondent (plural correspondents)

1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Hyponyms

• stringer

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

References

• correspondent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• korrespondent (before 1996)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.r?s.p?n?d?nt/, /?k?.r?.sp?n?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: cor?res?pon?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)

1. A correspondent, in particular a reporter.

Related terms

• correspondentie
• corresponderen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??s.p??d/

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present indicative of correspondre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of correspondre

Latin

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of corresponde?

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)

1. (Jersey) correspondent