parthood

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noun

The relational quality of being a part.

OriginProto-Germanic *haiduz ← Proto-Indo-European *keyt- ← English part →
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Meanings

nounparthood (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe relational quality of being a part.

    For describing changes in parthood relations over time some sort of temporal apparatus needs to be incorporated into the mereology.

    2008 February 1, Maureen Donnelly, Thomas Bittner, “Summation relations and portions of stuff”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 167–185

Origin

  1. Englishpart
  2. Proto-Indo-European*keyt-
  3. Proto-Germanic*haiduz
  4. Englishparthood

From part + -hood.

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