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participle (s) (noun), participles (pl)
Etymology: a variant of participe, from Latin participium; literally, "a sharing, a partaking"; from particeps, "partaker". In the grammatical sense, the Latin translates Gk. metokhe "sharer, partaker," and the idea is "partaking" of the nature of both a noun and an adjective.
This entry is located in the following units: cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (page 9) part-, parti- (page 3)
(Latin: burere, "to burn up"; from urere, with an inserted or faulty separation of b in amburere, "to burn around"; which stands for amb-urere, "to burn around", but it was misdivided into am-burere and because of this misdivision, the new verb burere was formed with the past participle bustum; so, it really came from urere, "to burn, to singe")
(Latin: to fasten; to attach; from fixus, past participle of figere)
(Greek: ion, "going"; neuter present participle of ienai, "to go"; because an ion moves toward the electrode of an opposite charge)
(Latin: putatus past participle of putare: to think over, consider, reckon, count; to trim, prune, lop, cut, clean, clear, unmixed)
(Latin: betrothed man, groom; betrothed woman, bride; both come from sponsus, past participle of spondere, "to promise, betroth" from Old French, espous [masculine, male]; espouse [feminine, female])
(Latin: to rub; to thresh, to grind; to wear away; from tritus, past participle of terere, "to rub")