partner
noun
[ ˈpɑːtnə ]
• either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity.
• "arrange the children in pairs so that each person has a partner"
• either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple.
• "she lived with her partner"
• a friendly form of address by one man to another.
• "how you doing, partner?"
partner
verb
• be the partner of.
• "young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance"
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.
partner
noun
• a timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass.
• "the mast was not chocked at the partners as it should have been"
Origin:
late Middle English: probably from Anglo-Norman pautenere ‘promiscuous woman, prostitute’.
