Morpheme
Parliament
Type
free base
Denotation
discussion, speaking, meeting, negotiation, assembly, council
Etymology
Middle English parlement with spelling altered c. 1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum (Latinization of Old French parlement); Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement, from parler + -ment; Latin parabolāre, from parabola; Ancient Greek parabolē, from parabállō + -ē, from parabállein, from para- + bállein
Evidence
antiparliamentary, extraparliamentary, interparliamentary, parliament, parliamental, parliamentarian, parliamentarianism, parliamentary, parliamentlike, parliaments, unparliamentary
