different between counterpart vs zephyrus

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.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (Zéphuros, “Zephyrus, the west wind”). Not related to zephirum or sefiroth.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ze.p?y.rus/, [?d??z??p????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d?ze.fi.rus/, [?d??z???fi?us]

Noun

zephyrus m (genitive zephyr?); second declension

1. the west wind, Zephyrus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (west wind): fav?nius

Antonyms

• (west wind): ap?li?t?s, subs?l?nus, s?l?nus

Learned borrowings

• ? English: Zephyrus
• ? Italian: zefiro
• ? Romanian: zefir
• ? Russian: ?????? (Zefír), ?????? (zefír, “marshmallow or sim.”)
• ? Spanish: Céfiro

References

• zephyrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zephyrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• zephyrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette