partir

From Latin partīre.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈtiɾ/ [paɾˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: par‧tir

partir (first-person singular indicative present parto, past participle partíu)

1. to divide, to split, to separate
2. to leave, to go away

• “partir”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “partir”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Catalan partir, from Latin partīre (“distribute, divide”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paɾˈtiɾ]

partir (first-person singular present parteixo, first-person singular preterite partí, past participle partit)

1. to divide, to split
2. to part, to split up
3. to share

• “partir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “partir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “partir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “partir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin partīre.

partir (ORB, broad)

1. to leave

• partir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• partir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French partir, from Old French partir, from Latin partīre.

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.tiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

partir

1. (obsolete, transitive) to share, to share out, to divide

   Avoir maille à partir avec quelqu'un.

   To have scores to settle with someone, to have a bone to pick with someone.

2. (intransitive) to go away, leave, depart
   • Attributed to Alphonse Allais

     Partir, c'est mourir un peu, mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

     Parting is a little bit of dying, but dying is the great parting.

3. (intransitive) to originate

   Synonym: s'en aller

   Toutes les artères partent du cœur. ― All arteries originate from the heart.

4. (intransitive, euphemistic) to die

   Synonym: s'en aller

   Il ne s'est pas vu partir ― He has not seen death

5. (intransitive, figuratively) to emanate

   Cette croyance est partie d'un mauvais principe.

   This belief emanates from an evil principle.

6. (Quebec, informal, transitive) to start

   partir une affaire ― to start a business

7. (Lebanon, intransitive) to go

   Moi et mes amies, on est parties au cinéma ― My friends and I went to the movie theater.

   Layan et moi on est parties à l'école ensemble. ― Layan and I used to go to school together.

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb être to form compound tenses if used intransitively.

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) pars and (il) part in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *partis and *partit (as in the past historic).

• (to go away, to leave, to depart): s'en aller; (familiar) se barrer; (familiar) se casser

• sortir

• “partir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Galician-Portuguese partir, from Latin partīre.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈtiɾ/ [paɾˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: par‧tir

partir (first-person singular present parto, first-person singular preterite partín, past participle partido)
partir (first-person singular present parto, first-person singular preterite partim or parti, past participle partido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive) to go away, to leave, to depart

   Synonyms: marchar, saír

2. (transitive) to split, cleave, divide; to break

   Synonyms: fender, romper, tronzar

3. (transitive) to quarter

   Synonym: despedazar

4. (transitive) to share; to allot

   Synonyms: compartir, partillar, repartir

5. (of water) to assign a period of irrigation

   Synonyms: compartir, repartir

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “partir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “partir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “partir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “partir”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “partir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “partir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “partir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

partir (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of partire

• partì

From Latin partīre.

partir

1. to depart, leave

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• part/pert
• spartir

From Old French partir, from Latin partīre.

partir

1. (intransitive or reflexive, se partir) to leave
2. (transitive) to divide up
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:

     Nous partons le fruict de nostre chasse avec noz chiens et oyseaux, comme la peine et l’industrie.

     We divide up the fruit of our hunt with our dogs and birds, just as we do the pain and the hard work.

• French: partir

From Latin partīre

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partir

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• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 506

From Latin partīre.

partir

1. (intransitive) to leave
2. (reflexive, se partir) to leave
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     S’il ne vos doit peser,
     Sire, de ci me partirai.
     En ma chanbre couchier m’irai

     If it doesn't bother you
     Sire, I will go from here
     To my chamber to go to bed

3. to divide up
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan:

     La nostre amur, nostre desir
     ne pot unques nuls hom partir

     Our love, our desire
     no man can split it up

This verb conjugates as a third-group or second-group verb (ending in -ir, without or with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: partir
  • French: partir
• Norman: parti (Jersey)

From Latin partīre.

partir

2. (intransitive or pronominal) to leave
3. (transitive) to divide up

• Galician: partir
• Portuguese: partir

From Old Galician-Portuguese partir, from Latin partīre (“to distribute, to divide”).

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [paɹˈt͡ʃi(ɹ)]
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /pahˈti(h)/

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partir (first-person singular present parto, first-person singular preterite parti, past participle partido)

1. (transitive) to split (divide something, especially in two roughly equal parts)

   Synonyms: dividir, (without the suggestion of equal parts) quebrar

   Tente partir esse pedaço de madeira. ― Try to split this piece of wood.

2. (intransitive or pronominal) to split; to break apart (become divided, especially in two roughly equal parts)

   Synonym: (without the suggestion of equal parts) quebrar

   O meu monitor se partiu em mil pedacinhos com a pancada. ― My monitor burst into a thousand little pieces with the blow.

3. (formal, intransitive) to depart; to leave; to go away

   Synonyms: sair, ir embora

   Temos que partir da cidade o quanto antes. ― We have to leave the city as soon as possible.

4. (euphemistic, intransitive) to leave us; to depart (die)

   Synonyms: (general) morrer, (polite) falecer, (impolite) bater as botas

   Meu tio partiu ontem de noite. ― My uncle departed last night.

5. (intransitive) to come (be caused by) [with de ‘from’]

   Synonym: surgir

   De onde partiram suas dúvidas? ― Where do your doubts come from?

6. (intransitive, colloquial) to start behaving (in a particular way) [with para ‘something, especially a noun referring to violent behaviour’]

   Me dê o dinheiro senão eu vou ter que partir pra violência. ― Give me the money or I’ll have to go violent on you.

7. (intransitive, colloquial) to fall on; to attack [with para or para cima de ‘someone’]

   Synonyms: atacar, investir

   O cachorro partiu para cima de mim assim que me viu. ― The dog attacked me as soon as it saw me.

• “partir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “partir”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “partir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “partir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “partir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “partir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin partīre (“to distribute, divide”). Compare English party.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈtiɾ/ [paɾˈt̪iɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: par‧tir

partir (first-person singular present parto, first-person singular preterite partí, past participle partido)

1. to divide, split

   Synonym: dividir

2. to go away, leave, depart

   Synonym: salir

3. (reflexive) to crack up, have a laugh
4. (reflexive, colloquial) to fall in love
5. (pronominal) to crack open (e.g., one's head)

• “partir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Latin partīre. Compare Italian partire.

partir

1. (transitive) to leave

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.