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PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 871 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN . (I) A thoroughgoing " party " man or adherent, usually in a depreciatory sense of one who puts his party before principles; (2) an irregular combatant or guerrilla soldier; (3) a weapon with a
long
 
shaft
  and a broad bladed head, of a type intermediate between the
spear
  and the halberd (q.v.). In senses (1) and (2) the word is derived through the Fr. from Ital. partigiano, from parteggiare, to share, take
part
  in, 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 historical evidence for this. The form which the word now takes in
French
 , pertuisane, has given rise to a connexion with pertuis, hole; Lat. pertusus, pertundere, to strike through. But the most probable derivation is from the
Teutonic
  parta, barta, axe, which forms the last part of " halberd."


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