## Etymology
From French transparence, from Medieval Latin transparentia, from transparens ('shining through'), from Latin trans- ('through') + parere ('to appear, be visible').

## AI Etymology
Transparence comes from French transparence, from Medieval Latin transparentia, from transparens ('shining through'), from Latin trans- ('through') + parere ('to appear, be visible'). The historical chain includes Latin transparentia, Latin trans, and Latin parere. The quoted older senses, "shining through", "through", and "to appear, be visible", supply the semantic anchors for transparence. The formation is best read as compound and borrowed: the word transparence carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the quality of being transparent; transparency". Related English forms include transparent, transparency, and transparently. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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