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pars

Pronunciation: [ˈpars]

“pars” is a Latin word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a part, portion, piece, share
  2. pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...
  3. a party, fraction, side
  4. a part, character
  5. a part, function, office, duty
  6. a lot, portion, fate
  7. a portion or share of food
  8. a task, lesson
  9. a part, place, region of the earth
  10. a part, fraction
  11. a part of a body, a member
  12. a party
  13. a direction

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *partis > parts > pars. Probably from the same root as pār and portiō. This could be the Proto-Indo-European root *perh₂- (“sell, exchange”), which also gave the Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”), and πέρνημι (pérnēmi, “sell”). Others refer to (the perhaps identical) Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to pass through”), whence Latin porta, portus, parō, pariō, perīculum,…

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