partake
/pɑɹˈteɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Brutes partake in this faculty."
- "Will you partake of some food?"
- "The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike."
- "c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-general"
- "The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories."
Etymology
Back-formation from Middle English part-takinge, part-takynge (“a sharing; partaking”), a calque of Latin particeps (“participating”); equivalent to part + take. Compare take part. In the sense of taking a share or portion of something, displaced native Old English onbītan (“to taste of, to partake of”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: part-takinge
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɑɹˈteɪk/
- British English: /pɑːˈteɪk/