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parole.

speech, language (the faculty of using spoken language to communicate or express thought, the usage of this faculty, and the words articulated through its use)

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Meaning & usage

noun/pa.ʁɔl/
  1. speech, language (the faculty of using spoken language to communicate or express thought, the usage of this faculty, and the words articulated through its use)

    feminine
    la parole et l'écriture
    perdre la parole / perdre l'usage de la parole
  2. word(s) utterance, expression (an orally articulated unit of discourse)

    feminine
  3. voice, spoken word

    feminine
  4. lyrics, words (of a song)

    feminine · in-plural
    les paroles d'une chanson
  5. promise, word

    feminine
    belles paroles
    tenir parole
  6. floor (the right to speak, as, for example, in a legislative assembly)

    feminine
    avoir la parole
    prendre la parole
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French parole, from Old French parole, inherited from Vulgar Latin *paraula, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; (later) speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabole and palabre.

intj/pa.ʁɔl/
  1. swear to God!

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French parole, from Old French parole, inherited from Vulgar Latin *paraula, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; (later) speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabole and palabre.

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