participate
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From Latin participatus, past participle of participare (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”), from Latin particeps (“taking part in, sharing in”), from pars (“part”) + capere (“to take”); see part and capable.
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participate (third-person singular simple present participates, present participle participating, simple past and past participle participated)
- To join in, to take part, to involve oneself.
- (obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World (Dialogue 2)
- Make the Earth ... turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World (Dialogue 2)
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to join in, to take part, to involve oneself
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- participate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- participate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
participāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of participō
