The story
- Latin · derived frompartītiō, partītiōnem“division”
- Old French · derived fromparçonier
- Middle English · inherited fromparcener
- English todayparcener
From Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, from parçon (“part, portion, share, division”), from Latin partītiō, partītiōnem (“division”), from partīre, from pars. See partition and compare partner. By surface analysis, parcen + -er.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchparçonier all →
partnerparcen
Latinpartītiō all →
parcenparcenary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.