partaker

English

Etymology

From partake +‎ -er.

Noun

partaker (plural partakers)

1. One who partakes of something.

   The joint was passed around the circle, but he was not a partaker, so he waved it away.

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes,
     I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee:
     To be partaker of thy good or ill,
     As long as life maintaines Theridimas.

2. A partner or accomplice.

Synonyms

• (one who partakes): imbiber, participant, user

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “one who partakes”): abstainer, faster, refuser

Derived terms

• copartaker

Translations

one who partakes of something

• Arabic: شَرِيك m (šarīk)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܫܘܬܦܐ m, ܫܘܬܦܬܐ f

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: կցորդ (kcʻord)

• Bulgarian: участник (bg) m (učastnik)
• Galician: participante (gl)
• German: Teilhaber (de) m, Teilhaberin (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰 n (gamainja)
• Hungarian: résztvevő (hu)
• Irish: rannpháirtí m
• Old Church Slavonic: съприимьникъ m (sŭpriimĭnikŭ), състольникъ m (sŭstolĭnikŭ), обьщьникъ m (obĭštĭnikŭ), причѧстьникъ m (pričęstĭnikŭ), съпричѧстьникъ m (sŭpričęstĭnikŭ)
• Russian: уча́стник (ru) m (učástnik), уча́стница (ru) f (učástnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀чеснӣк m, у̀чесница f

  Latin: ùčesnīk (sh) m, ùčesnica (sh) f

• Spanish: participante (es) c, consumidor (es), tomador (es)