![]() Sense of "separate piece of a machine" is by 1813. ![]() In music, "one of the voices or instruments in a concerted piece" (1520s). The theatrical sense (late 15c.) is from an actor's "share" in a performance (The Latin plural partis was used in the same sense). 1300 that of "a share of action or influence in activity or affairs, role, duty" is by late 14c. Meaning "an allotted portion, a share" is from c. ![]() It has replaced native deal (n.) in most senses. Mid-13c., "division, portion of a whole, element or constituent (of something)," from Old French part "share, portion character power, dominion side, way, path," from Latin partem (nominative pars) "a part, piece, a share, a division a party or faction a part of the body a fraction a function, office," related to portio "share, portion," from PIE root *pere- (2) "to grant, allot."
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