Added 9 October 2026
parse
/pɑːz/ verb
Latin root: pars Wiktionary
verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about parse at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
Origin
Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).
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