Other forms: participants
A participant is somebody who takes part. Study participants, a willing participant, participants were told.
In research it is the required word: subjects was the old term and was dropped because it made people sound like objects, and the change reflects a real shift in how consent is treated. Participants must be told what they are agreeing to and may stop at any time.
1nounparticipantSomebody who takes part.
“Each participant in the course received a certificate at the end.”
participant is a person.
Latin participans comes from participare, to share in — pars, a part, plus capere, to take.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
participāns
Middle French
participant
English, today
participant
From stem of particip(ate) + -ant, borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, present participle of participō; see participate. Displaced native dǣlnimend.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA