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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

  1. A formal council summoned to discuss important...

Ancestry of “parliament”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishparlement—
2Anglo-Normanparliament—
3Old Frenchparlementdiscussion; discourse; debate; argument;...
4Old Frenchparlerto speak; to talk
5Latinparabolō—
6LatinparabolaA comparison, illustration, likeness; An...
7Ancient Greekπαραβολήa placing of two things side by side,...
8Ancient Greekπαραβάλλωto compare; to set side by side; I set side by...
9Ancient Greekπᾰρᾰ-near; next to; by, near
10Ancient Greekπαρά
11Latinverēdus—
12Gaulishwerēdoshorse
13Proto-Celtic*uɸoreidos—

Words derived from “parliament”

  • parliamentary
  • parliamentarian
  • parliamentarianism
  • unparliamentary
  • extraparliamentary
  • interparliamentary
  • nonparliamentary
  • antiparliamentary
  • parliamentarily
  • parliamental
  • unparliamentarily
  • parliamentlike
  • parliamentariness
  • parlament
  • Parlamentsgebäude
  • Parlament
  • parlament
  • парламент
  • parlamentet
  • parlamenti
  • parlamentben
  • parlament
  • parlamenten
  • palamen
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