parcen

parcen

English

Etymology

Probably a back-formation from parcener, borrowed from Old French parçonier, from parçon, parcion (“part, portion”), from Latin partītiō (“a division”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːsɪn/, /ˈpɑːsn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹsən/, /ˈpɑɹsn̩/
• Hyphenation: par‧cen
• Homophone: parson (some accents)

Verb

parcen (third-person singular simple present parcens, present participle parcening, simple past and past participle parcened)

1. (law, rare) To divide among parceners

Further reading

• “† parcen, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, April 2015.

Anagrams

• prance