parle

Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō.

parle (countable and uncountable, plural parles)

1. (obsolete) Parley; talk.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 21, columns 1–2:

     Iul[ia]. Of all the faire reſort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthieſt loue?

2. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 152, column 2:

     Hor[atio]. […] So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle / He ſmot the ſledded Pollax on the Ice.

parle (third-person singular simple present parles, present participle parling, simple past and past participle parled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To talk; to converse; to parley.
   • 1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 266:

     […] Knute finding himſelf too weak, began to parle, […]

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, lepra, paler, pearl, repla

• IPA^(key): /paʁl/

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• Homophones: parles, parlent

parle

1. inflection of parler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• laper

parle

1. inflection of parlar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

parle

1. Alternative form of parlen

parle

1. inflection of parlar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾle/ [ˈpaɾ.le]
• Rhymes: -aɾle
• Syllabification: par‧le

parle

1. inflection of parlar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative