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• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN  . (I) A thoroughgoing " party " See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man or adherent, usually in a depreciatory sense of one who puts his party before principles; (2) an irregular combatant or See also:

• GUERRILLA (erroneously written " guerilla," being the diminutive of the Span. guerra, war)

guerrilla soldier; (3) a weapon with a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

shaft and a broad bladed See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, of a type intermediate between the See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear and the halberd (q.v.) . In senses (1) and (2) the word is derived through the Fr. from Ital. partigiano, from parteggiare, to See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share, take See also:

• PART

part in, See also:

• LAT

Lat. pars, part . The name for the weapon has also been attributed to the same origin, as being that used by " partisans," but there is no See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence for this . The See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form which the word now takes in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, pertuisane, has given rise to a connexion with pertuis, hole; Lat. pertusus, pertundere, to strike through .