Other forms: participles
A participle is the verb form used with have or be, as in broken or running. The past participle, a present participle, a dangling participle.
A dangling participle is the fault in a sentence such as walking down the road, the trees looked bare, where the walker has gone missing. The name means sharing, since a participle shares the qualities of a verb and an adjective.
1nounparticipleThe verb form used with have or be, as in broken or running.
“In I have eaten, eaten is the past participle of eat.”
participle is a form.
Latin participium comes from particeps, sharing, since the form shares in both verb and adjective.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
participium
Old French
participle
Middle English
participle
English, today
participle
From Middle English participle, from Old French participle (1388), variant of participe, from Latin participium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA