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par m. (Noun, Adjective) "pair;" "equal" 12th cent. 'From Latin par 'id.' From Proto-Italic *parVs 'id.' Of unknown origin. Indo-European Romance Portuguese par, French pair, Italian paio Italic Umbrian pars "prescription" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
para (1) (Preposition) "for" 12th cent. Old Spanish pora from por and a. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
Para (2) (Toponym) The name of a village in Burgos. Of uncertain origin. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
parábola f. (Noun) "parable" 16th cent. borrowing from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolé) "comparison;" "parable." From πᾰρᾰ́ (pará) "beside" and βάλλειν (bállein) "to throw," combined for the sense of placing two things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison. For the continued etymology of πᾰρᾰ́, see relevant notes under pre-; for the etymology of βάλλειν, see diablo. Indo-European Romance Asturian pallabra, Portuguese palavra, Galician palabra, Catalan paraula, French palabre, Italian parola, Sardinian paragula Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
parar (1) (Verb) "to stop;" "to place a bet" 10th cent. Originally meaning "to situate." From Latin parare "to prepare." The sense evolution was from positioning an object to keeping the object still. From Proto-Italic *parā-je/o- "to prepare." A derivation of Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- "to provide" (see also parir). Indo-European Romance Portuguese parar, French parer, Italian parare Celtic Gaulish ieuru "he offered," Old Irish ernaid "to grant" Hellenic Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron) "provided" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit pr̥ṇā́ti "he gives" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
parar (2) m. (Noun) (game) "lansquenet" From parar (1) in a secondary sense of placing a bet. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
parecer m. (Verb, Noun) "to seem;" "opinion" As a verb, first attested in the 10th cent.; as a noun, 16th cent. From Vulgar Latin *parescere 'id.,' from Latin parere "to appear" with the inchoative infix -scere (see -ecer). For the etymology of parere, see parar (1). Indo-European Romance Portuguese parar, French parer, Italian parare Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
pared f. (Noun) "wall" 11th cent. From Latin parietem, accusative of paries 'id.' Of unknown origin. Also the origin of the names of towns in Cuenca, Mdrid, Toledo, and Palencia. Indo-European Romance Portuguese parede, Galician parede, Catalan paret, French paroi, Italian parete, Romanian parete, Sardinian parada Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
pareja f. (Noun) "pair" 12th cent. From Vulgar Latin *paricula "little pair," a diminutive of Latin par "pair" (see par). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
parir (Verb) "to bear (children)," "to birth" 11th cent. From Latin parire 'id.' From Proto-Italic *per-i- "to bring forth," or a more general meaning of "to bear" not exclusive to childbirth. From Proto-Indo-European *pérh₃-i̯- 'id.' From the root *perh₃- of the same meaning. Indo-European Romance Asturian parir, Portuguese parir, Galician parir, Catalan parir Italic Faliscan amparihmu "he erected" (*an- "on" and par-ī-je- "furnished") Celtic Gaulish ieuru "he offered," Old Irish ernaid "to grant" Hellenic Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron) "provided" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit pr̥ṇā́ti "he gives" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.