parlement

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch parlement, from Middle Dutch parlement, from Old French parlement.

Pronunciation

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Noun

parlement (plural parlemente)

1. parliament

Dutch

Het Europees Parlement in Straatsburg
The European Parliament in Strasbourg

Etymology

From Middle Dutch parlement, from Old French parlement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑr.ləˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: par‧le‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

parlement n (plural parlementen, diminutive parlementje n)

1. parliament
2. (obsolete) conversation, talking, discussion, talk
3. (obsolete) meeting, assembly

Derived terms

• Benelux-parlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl, Beneluxparlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl
• Europees Parlement on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl
• parlementair
• parlementariër
• parlementsgebouw
• parlementsgezinde
• parlementshuis
• parlementsleger
• parlementslid
• parlementsverkiezing
• parlementsvoorzitter

Descendants

• Afrikaans: parlement
• → Indonesian: parlemen
• → West Frisian: parlemint

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French parlement, from Middle English parlement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.lə.mɑ̃/

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Noun

parlement m (plural parlements)

1. parliament

Derived terms

• Parlement européen
• parlementaire
• parlementer

Descendants

• → Persian: پارلمان (pârlemân)

Further reading

• “parlement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• paralament, parlament, parlamente, parlemente, parliament, parliment, parllement, parlyment

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and continental Old French parlement; equivalent to parlen +‎ -ment. Compare Medieval Latin parliamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌparli(a)ˈmɛnt/, /ˈparli(a)mɛnt/

Noun

parlement

1. A discussion or conversation; talking.
2. A consultation, council, or conference:
   1. A parliament (formal council of importance)
   2. A parliament (legislative assembly).
3. (specifically) The parliament of England.
4. (rare) An order or directive.

Descendants

• English: parliament, Parliament
• Scots: parliament
• → Old French: parlement (“legislative assembly, legislative body”) (semantic loan)

Middle French

Noun

parlement m (plural parlemens)

1. parliament
2. discussion
   • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     Si eurent entre euls avant disner parlement sur l'estat de leurs besoignes

     They had, between them, discussion before dinner about the state of their work

   • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 53:

     mal ont fait les parlemens de la table ronde

     they conducted the discussions of the round table badly

Descendants

• French: parlement

Old French

Etymology

• parler (“to speak”) +‎ -ment.
• (legislative body): Semantic loan from Middle English parlement (“parliament”) in the 14th century following the example of the Parliament of England; itself a borrowing from Old French.

Noun

parlement oblique singular, m (oblique plural parlemenz or parlementz, nominative singular parlemenz or parlementz, nominative plural parlement)

1. discussion; discourse; debate; argument
2. deliberative assembly
3. parliament (curia regis in judicial session; sovereign court of justice) (13th century)
4. parliament (legislative assembly or body) (14th century)

Descendants

(2):

• Middle French: parlement
  • French: parlement
• → Arabic: بَرْلَمَان (barlamān)
• → German: Parlament
• Medieval Latin: parlamentum
• → Middle English: parlement, paralament, parlament, parlamente, parlemente, parliament, parliment, parllement, parlyment
  • English: parliament, Parliament
  • Scots: parliament
  • → Old French: parlement (“legislative assembly, legislative body”) (semantic loan)
• → Middle Dutch: parlement
  • Dutch: parlement
    • Afrikaans: parlement
    • → Indonesian: parlemen
    • → West Frisian: parlemint

(3 & 4):

• French: parlement

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (parlement)