parle

See also parlé

English

Etymology

Old French parler (“to speak”), from Vulgar Latin *paraulō.

Noun

parle (plural parles)

1. Parley.
2. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.

Quotations

• "So frowned he once, when in an angry parle
• He smote the angry Polacks on the ice - Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 61-62.

Verb

parle (third-person singular simple present parles, present participle parling, simple past and past participle parled)

1. To talk; to converse; to parley.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

   • Milton

     Finding himself too weak, began to parle.

Anagrams

• APLer, paler, pearl, Pearl

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /paʁl/
• Homophones: parles, parlent

Verb

parle

1. first-person singular present indicative of parler
2. third-person singular present indicative of parler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of parler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of parler
5. second-person singular imperative of parler

Anagrams

• laper

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Spanish

Verb

parle (infinitive parlar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of parlar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of parlar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of parlar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of parlar.