different between participle vs participate

English

Etymology

From Middle English participle, from Old French participle (1388), variant of participe, from Latin participium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???t?s?p?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??t??s?p?l/

Noun

participle (plural participles)

1. (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

Usage notes

Participles can be combined with the auxiliary verbs have and be to form the perfect aspect, the progressive aspect, and the passive voice. The tense is always expressed through the auxiliary verb.

• I have asked. (present tense, perfect aspect)
• I am asking. (present tense, progressive aspect)
• I am asked. (present tense, passive voice)

When not combined with have or be, participles are almost always adjectives and can form adjectival phrases called participial phrases. Nouns can occasionally be derived from these adjectives:

• the following items
• the following
• the dying victims
• the dying

In English, participles typically end in -ing, -ed or -en.

A present participle ending in -ing has the same form but a different function from a verbal noun called a gerund. Sometimes a present participle (adjective) is mistakenly called a gerund (noun).

Hypernyms

• verbal

Hyponyms

• active participle
• future participle
• passive participle
• past participle
• perfect passive participle
• present participle

Translations

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?