part

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One of the pieces or amounts that make up a whole.

   The written part of the exam was harder than the speaking part.

2. 2
   noun

   A character played by an actor in a film or play.

   She played the part of the queen in the school production.

3. 3
   noun

   The share or responsibility a person has in a situation.

   He admitted his part in causing the accident.

4. 4
   noun

   The music written for one particular voice or instrument.

   I tried to sing the tenor part on my own.

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Simplified etymology

Part comes from Latin pars, with the stem part-, meaning “part.” The same Latin source produced words including depart, particle, particular, participate, partisan, partition, and party.

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 Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English…

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