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com⋅part

[kuhm-pahrt]
–verb (used with object)
1. to separate or mark out in parts; subdivide.
2. to distribute and give proportional relationships to the parts of (an architectural design).

Origin:
1565–75; < LL compartēre to divide up. See com-, part
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com·part   (kəm-pärt')   
tr.v.   com·part·ed, com·part·ing, com·parts
To divide into parts.

[Obsolete French compartir, from Italian compartire, from Late Latin compartīrī, to share : Latin com-, com- + Latin partīrī, to divide (from pars, part-, a part; see perə-2 in Indo-European roots).]
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