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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1531|origins=la pars, la capere}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: UK /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, /pɑːˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/, US /pɑːrˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/, /pɚˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/^(Roach et al. 2011)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is probably a back-formation from [[participation]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) or else from [[la|participātus]], the past participle of [[m|la|participāre|t=to share, take part]],^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) from [[m|la|particeps|t=partaking, sharing]], from [[m|la|pars|t=part]] and [[m|la|capere|t=to take]].^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(Collins 2023) It is related to [[part]], [[participle]] and [[particle]].^(Hoad 1986)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ To take or have a part or share in: 1531, in Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ To share something with others or to give a share of it was used from about 1540,^(OED 1989) and to make someone a sharer from the late 15th century; both are obsolete.^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002) Having features in common with others is by the 1570s.^(Etymonline) ''Participation'' is much older, from about 1380 in Chaucer's Boethius, and ''participant'' is from 1562 as a noun.^(Barnhart 1988)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 1380 – ''participation''.^(Barnhart 1988)
+ * 1531 – to share in.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)
+ * c. 1540 – to share with others.^(OED 1989)
+ * 1570s – to have features in common.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To take part or be involved in an activity.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
+ # To share in something.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[participative]]
+ * [[participator]]
+ * [[participatingly]]
+ * [[participatively]]
+ * [[participance]]
+ * [[nonparticipating]]
+ * [[unparticipating]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[participant]]
+ * [[participation]]
+ * [[participatory]]
+ * [[participial]]
+ * [[participle]]
+ * [[partake]]
+ * [[part]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}