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Forms

parti f (plural pãrtsã or perts, definite articulation partea or partia)[1]

  • Cunia heads it parti/parte, plural pãrtsã;[2] Wiktionary gives the plural pãrtsã or perts and the alternative form parte.[1]
  • Other spellings: Πάρτε in the Greek script of Kavalliotis's word list, read parte by Meyer;[3] PÁRTE in Papahagi's dictionary;[4] πάρτε (párte) in Nikolaidis;[5] părti in Dalametra's Romanian-based spelling;[6] parte in Weigand's glossary.[7]
  • Regional forms: p’arti in Turia;[8] párte, plural pắrtsî, in Metsovo.[9]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin pars (“part, piece”),[4][10][1] as Nikolaidis already saw.[5] De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *parti- (“part”) and, following Schrijver, explains it as a pre-Latin formation from the present stem of pariō (“to bring forth”), first meaning "lot, portion, fate".[11]

The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian parte, Megleno-Romanian parti and Istro-Romanian pǫrătŭ.[12][13] Further west it continues as Italian parte, French part, Spanish parte and Portuguese parte.[12][14]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's word list of 1770, where Πάρτε translates Modern Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).[3]

Semantic evolution

The Latin word meant a part or portion.[15] Aromanian keeps it for a part of a whole and the share that falls to someone;[16][10] Pascu cites the sense "part of an inheritance" from Boiagi.[16][10] It also means a side and a direction,[16][4] and each of the two halves of a pack animal's load.[4] "To take someone's part" is to take their side.[6][4] Papahagi's tales have pri di na parte "on the one hand" and di partea aista "in this respect";[17] in Turia the word also names the slope of a ravine.[8]

Timeline

  • 1770 – Πάρτε “part” in Kavalliotis's word list.[3]
  • 1813 – used in Boiagi's grammar for a share of an inheritance, as cited by Pascu.[10]
  • 1894 – parte “part, side” in Weigand's glossary.[7]
  • 1909 – πάρτε in Nikolaidis's dictionary, from Latin pars.[5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A part or piece of a whole.[16][4][1]
  2. A share, the portion that falls to someone.[16][10]
  3. A side; a direction.[16][4]
  4. Each of the two halves of a pack animal's load.[4]
  5. (Turia) The slope of a ravine.[8]
  • Romanian parte

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 789
  3. ^ a b c Meyer, Gustav (1895), Albanesische Studien IV: Das griechisch-südrumänisch-albanesische Wörterverzeichnis des Kavalliotis, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Classe 132, p. 84
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 949
  5. ^ a b c Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 414
  6. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 162
  7. ^ a b Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 324
  8. ^ a b c Бара, Мариана; Каль, Теде; Соболев, Андрей Н. (2005), Южноарумынский говор села Турия (Малый диалектологический атлас балканских языков, серия монографий 1), p. 315
  9. ^ Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
  10. ^ a b c d e Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 138
  11. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  12. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
  13. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română, p. 216
  14. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
  15. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  16. ^ a b c d e f Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
  17. ^ Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 672