different between counterpart vs eos

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.

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

eos (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. (botany) bud, spore, germ

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Phrase

eos

1. Acronym of ei osaa sanoa or en osaa sanoa (“undecided, do not know, cannot say (in forms or surveys)”)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.o?s/, [?eo?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.os/, [????s]

Pronoun

e?s

1. accusative plural of is

   Facile erat nobis eos superare.

   It was easy for us to overcome them.