## Meanings
1. A person you do an activity or share a business with.
2. The person you are married to or in a romantic relationship with.
3. To join with someone to do or perform something together.

## Examples
- She started the company with her business partner.
- He brought his partner to the wedding.
- The two companies partnered to launch a new product.

## Derived Forms
- antipartner
- bedpartner
- copartner
- cyberpartner
- ex-partner
- expartner
- heteropartner
- interpartner
- multi-partner
- nonpartner
- partnerdom
- partnerial

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: partener
- Root: parçonier
- Root: partītiōnem

## Etymology
From Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”) from parçon (“partition”), from Latin partītiōnem, singular accusative of partītiō (“portion”). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (“part holder”). Compare also Middle English partifere (“partner”), partifelewe (“partner”). Doublet of parcener.

## AI Etymology
Partner comes from Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”) from parçon (“partition”), from Latin partītiōnem, singular accusative of partītiō (“portion”). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (“part holder”). Compare also Middle English partifere (“partner”), partifelewe (“partner”). Doublet of parcener. Modern senses include a person you do an activity or share a business with and the person you are married to or in a romantic relationship with. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antipartner, bedpartner, copartner, cyberpartner, ex-partner, and expartner.

## Topics
- Family & Relationships

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