[ˈpɑːtnə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity
(e.g: arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner)

- either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple
(e.g: she lived with her partner)

- a friendly form of address by one man to another
(e.g: how you doing, partner?)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: alteration of parcener ‘partner, joint heir’, from Anglo-Norman French parcener, based on Latin partitio(n-) ‘partition’. The change in the first syllable was due to association with part

[ˈpɑːtnə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be the partner of
(e.g: young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: alteration of parcener ‘partner, joint heir’, from Anglo-Norman French parcener, based on Latin partitio(n-) ‘partition’. The change in the first syllable was due to association with part

[ˈpɑːtnə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass
(e.g: the mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: probably from Anglo-Norman pautenere ‘promiscuous woman, prostitute’