## Meanings
1. An object wrapped up to be sent or carried, especially by post.
2. A piece of land bought or sold as a single unit.
3. To divide something into parts and share it out.

## Examples
- A brown paper parcel was waiting on my doorstep.
- They bought a small parcel of land near the river.
- The developers parceled the land into building plots.

## Derived Forms
- interparcel
- multiparcel
- parcel-poet
- parcelcopter
- parcelful
- parcellate
- parcellation
- parcelwise
- unparcel
- unparcelled

## Related Forms
- allotment
- lot
- part
- particle
- particular
- particulate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *perh₃-
- Root: parcel
- Root: parcelle
- Root: particella
- Root: particula

## Etymology
From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

## AI Etymology
Parcel comes from Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-, Middle English parcel, Old French parcelle, la-lat particella, and Latin particula. Modern senses include an object wrapped up to be sent or carried, especially by post and a piece of land bought or sold as a single unit. The wider word family includes derivatives such as interparcel, multiparcel, parcel-poet, parcelcopter, parcelful, and parcellate and related forms such as allotment, lot, part, and particle.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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