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partisan
English
Alternative forms
- partizan
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.t??zæn/, /?p??.t??zæn/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p??.??.z?n/, /?p??.??.z?n/, /-s?n/
Etymology 1
From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian ????????? (partizán), from the same source.The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690.The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
partisan (plural partisans)
- An adherent to a party or faction.
- 1992, Thomas R. Pegram, "Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois
- "Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block […] "
- 1992, Thomas R. Pegram, "Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois
- A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
- A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
- (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Related terms
- copartisan
- part
- partisanism
- partisanry
- partisanship
- party
Translations
Adjective
partisan (comparative more partisan, superlative most partisan)
- Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
- Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
- Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
Translations
Etymology 2
From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).
Noun
partisan (plural partisans)
- (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
- I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
- (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
Translations
See also
- halberd
References
Further reading
- Partisan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Partains, Sarpanit, aspirant, spartina
French
Etymology
From Italian partigiano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?.ti.z??/
Noun
partisan m (plural partisans, feminine partisane)
- supporter, proponent, advocate
- (sports) fan
Adjective
partisan (feminine singular partisane, masculine plural partisans, feminine plural partisanes)
- partisan, partial
- in favour of
Further reading
- “partisan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- aspirant
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French partisan.
Noun
partisan m (plural partisans)
- (Jersey) supporter
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Italian partigiano, via French partisan
Noun
partisan m (definite singular partisanen, indefinite plural partisaner, definite plural partisanene)
- a partisan (member of an armed group)
References
- “partisan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Italian partigiano, via French partisan
Noun
partisan m (definite singular partisanen, indefinite plural partisanar, definite plural partisanane)
- a partisan (member of an armed group)
References
- “partisan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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part
English
Etymology
From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English d?l (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English d?l (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (t?)sl?fan (“to split”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??t/
- (General American) enPR: pärt, IPA(key): /p??t/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /p??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
part (plural parts)
- A portion; a component.
- A fraction of a whole.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- A group inside a larger group.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (mathematics, dated) A factor.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- He that is not against us is on our part.
- 1650, Edmund Waller, to my Lady Morton (epistle)
- Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- men of considerable parts
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Synonyms
- (action of a whole): piece, portion, component, element
- (group within a larger group): faction, party
- (position or role): position, role
- (hair dividing line): parting (UK), shed, shoad/shode
- (Hebrew calendar unit): chelek
- See also Thesaurus:part
Hyponyms
- car part
- spare part
Holonyms
- whole
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (p?to)
Translations
Verb
part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
- It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
- 1841, Andrew Reed, The is an Hour when I must Part [1]
- There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear
- 1860, George Eliot, Recollections of Italy
- his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
- To cut hair with a parting; shed.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
- (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
- He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
- They parted my raiment among them.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
- (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- They shall part alike.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
- (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.
- (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
- He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!" […] so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do […] maybe talk […] so we did […] since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
- 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
Derived terms
- part ways
- part with
Translations
Adjective
part (not comparable)
- Fractional; partial.
- Fred was part owner of the car.
Translations
Adverb
part (not comparable)
- Partly; partially; fractionally.
Derived terms
- part-finance
- take part
Translations
References
- part on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- part at OneLook Dictionary Search
- part in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- part in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- TRAP, patr-, prat, rapt, rtPA, tarp, trap
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?pa?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?part/
- (Central, colloquial) IPA(key): /?par/
- (Alghero) IPA(key): /?pa?t/
Etymology 1
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- birthing (act of giving birth)
- Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament
- (figuratively) birth of an idea
Related terms
- parir
Etymology 2
From Old Occitan part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- part, portion
Derived terms
- a part
- a part de
Related terms
- parcial
- partir
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).
Adjective
part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)
- Parthian
Noun
part m (plural parts, feminine parta)
- Parthian
Related terms
- Pàrtia
Further reading
- “part” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “part” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
Latin pars
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?part]
- Rhymes: -art
Noun
part m
- part (the melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece)
Related terms
Further reading
- part in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- part in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?rt/
Noun
part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)
- part
Estonian
Etymology
Onomatopoetic. Cognate to Votic partti. Probably the same root as in parisema (“to thud with pauses”).
Noun
part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)
- duck
Declension
Faroese
Noun
part m
- participle accusative singular of partur
- fyri ein part - partial
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?/
Etymology 1
From Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- share
- portion, part, slice
- proportion
Synonyms
- partie
Derived terms
Related terms
- partage
- partager
- partir
Etymology 2
Conjugated form of -ir verb partir
Verb
part
- third-person singular present indicative of partir
Etymology 3
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- newborn
Further reading
- “part” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin pars, partem.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- part
Related terms
- partî
Etymology 2
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- delivery, birth, childbirth
See also
- nassince
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian, from Latin portus. Compare Italian porto (“port, harbour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?rt]
- Hyphenation: part
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
part (plural partok)
- shore, coast, bank, beach
Declension
Derived terms
- parti
- parttalan
References
Further reading
- part in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Noun
part
- indefinite accusative singular of partur
Ladin
Alternative forms
- pert
Etymology
From Latin pars, partem.
Noun
part f (plural part)
- part
Related terms
- partir
- spartir
Middle English
Alternative forms
- parde, paart, parte, perte
Etymology
From Old French part and Old English part, both from Latin partem, accusative singular of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part (plural partes)
- part
Descendants
- English: part
- Scots: pairt
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
part c
- part, piece
- party (law: person), stakeholder
Declension
Related terms
- partiell
- partisk
- partition
Anagrams
- prat
Veps
Etymology
Borrowing from Russian ????? (parta).
Noun
part
- bench
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