PART Copy link • PART 1. Portion, pars; portio (part to which one has a right, portion; ☞ in the best prose portio occurs only in the phrase pro portione): membrum (member of the body, of a sentence): locus (passage, section of a book, etc.). The middle, extreme, upper, lower part, is expressed in Latin by the adjectivesmedius, extremus, infimus, summus: by or in parts, per partes; particulatim (opposed to summatim, or totus); ex parte (opposed to totus); carptim (opposed to universi); nonnulla parte: I for my part, ego quidem, equidem (according to my views, etc.; ☞ not quod ad me attinet): pro mea parte (according to my power): each for his part, pro sua quisque parte (each according to his power): to divide into parts, in partes dividere or distribuere: to get or receive a part of anything, partem alicujus rei accipere: to have part in anything, alicujus rei participem, or in parte, in societate, alicujus rei esse; partem or societatem in aliqua re habere (in anything good): alicujus rei socium esse (in anything good or bad): affinem esse alicujus rei or alicui rei (in anything bad; e.g., facinori): to take part in anything, partem alicujus rei capere (e.g., administrandae reipublicae; Suet., Oct., 37): in partem alicujus rei venire; interesse alicui rei (to be present at, to be personally concerned with; e.g., pugnae): attingere aliquid (to be engaged in): commoveri aliqua re (to sympathize with): to have no part in anything, alicujus rei expertem esse; partem alicujus rei non habere; non contulisse ad aliquid (not to have contributed to). Party, partes (plur., implying difference of principles or interests): factio (clique of partizans): to take part with, alicujus partes suscipere, amplecti; ad causam alicujus se adjungere: the one part... the other part, pars... pars; partim... partim (also with a genitive or the preposition ex); pars or partim... alii, -ae, -a; alii, -ae, -a... alii, -ae, -a (all of persons or of things). Character in a play, partes (plur.); persona: a second part, partes secundae, or simply secundae (PROP. and figuratively): to play a second part, partes secundas agere or sustinere, in anything, in aliqua re: one who plays a second part, secundarum partium actor. Duty, officium; munus. It is my, your, etc., part, meum, tuum, etc. est: it is the part of a wise man, sapientis, etc. (the substantive officium, etc., being omitted). Region, regio; terra. Plural, qualities, ingenium; ingenii vires, virtutes, or facultates (☞ but facultates alone usually denotes wealth, riches). 2. v. TRANS., partiri; dividere; dispertire, or, more rarely, dispertiri. [SYN. and PHR., in DIVIDE, DISTRIBUTE]. INTRANS., discedere (general term): digredi (to go to different sides; of persons): dilabi (to separate, imperceptibly; usually of things): fatiscere (to form chinks or clefts; of things): dehiscere (to gape open): to part from anyone, discedere ab aliquo, digredi ab aliquo (☞ never degredi, which is “to go or march down,” etc.; Vid: Latin Dict.).