Where does “parliament” come from?
Parliament derives from French parlement, from French parler meaning to speak, from Latin -mentum, from Latin parabola meaning comparison or discourse, from Proto-Indo-European méntis meaning mind.
parliament (English): A formal council summoned to discuss important...
Definitions
- A formal council summoned to discuss important...
Ancestry of “parliament”, step by step
parliament traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English parlement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | parlement | A discussion or conversation; talking |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | parliament | — |
| 3 | Old French | parlement | discussion; discourse; debate; argument;... |
| 4 | Old French | parler | to speak; to talk |
| 5 | Latin | parabolō | to make clear by metaphors |
| 6 | Latin | parabola | A comparison, illustration, likeness; An... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παραβολή | a placing of two things side by side,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | παραβάλλω | to compare; to set side by side; I set side by... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πᾰρᾰ- | near; next to; by, near |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | παρά | |
| 11 | Latin | verēdus | A fast or light breed of horse; courier's horse; hunter |
| 12 | Gaulish | werēdos | horse |
| 13 | Proto-Celtic | *uɸoreidos | horse |
via French parlement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | parlement | parliament |
Words derived from “parliament”
- parliamentary
- parliamentarian
- parliamentarianism
- unparliamentary
- extraparliamentary
- interparliamentary
- nonparliamentary
- antiparliamentary
- parliamentarily
- parliamental
- unparliamentarily
- parlament
- parliamentlike
- parlament
- Parlament
- palamen
- Parliament Hill
- antiparliament
- interparliament
- parlimen
- pāremata
- ipalamente
- ปาลิเมนต์
- ပါလီမန်