participate

Forms

present (v1): participate
past (v2): participated
past participle (v3): participated
present participle: participating
3rd person singular: participates

Definitions

1.To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

Frequency

Overall

Common· #1637

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Common
Academic: Common
Literature: Rare

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin participātus, the perfect passive participle of participō (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from particeps (“taking part (in), sharing (in); someone who takes part (in)”, particip- in compounds), from pars (“part”, part- in compounds) + -ceps (“which takes, taker”), literally “(someone) who takes part”; see part and capable.