Etymology

parton

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Today it means: Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons. Full definition →

Old English pere
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parton · noun1

Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.

Parton · proper noun2

  1. Old English · inherited frompere“pear”
  2. English todayParton

From Old English pere (“pear”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to pear + -ton.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishpere all →

pear

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