partially

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English partial

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English partially

From partial + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹʃəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːʃəli/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: par‧tial‧ly

Adverb

partially (not comparable)

1. To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:partially

   • 1961, Association of National European and Mediterranean Societies of Gastroenterology, Proceedings VIth meeting of the "Association des Sociétés Nationales Européenes et Méditerranéennes de Gastro-Entérologie"‎^[1], page 624:

     In all 5 untreated coeliacs as well as the 3 partially treated coeliacs who were in relapse at the time of biopsy, villi were entirely absent.

Derived terms

• partially defatted pork fatty tissue
• partially ordered
• partially ordered set

Related terms

• partly

Collocations

Collocations

• partially open
• partially closed
• partially successful
• partially responsible
• partially true
• partially correct
• partially visible
• partially dependent
• partially effective
• partially right
• partially soluble
• partially supported
• partially covered
• partially filled
• partially completed
• partially offset
• partially destroyed
• partially purified
• partially removed
• partially developed

Translations

to a partial degree

• Armenian: մասամբ (hy) (masamb)
• Catalan: parcialment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 部分地 (zh) (bùfèn de)

• Czech: částečně (cs)
• Danish: delvis (da)
• Dutch: gedeeltelijk (nl), deels (nl)
• Esperanto: parte (eo)
• Finnish: osittain (fi), osin (fi)
• French: partiellement (fr), en partie (fr)
• Galician: parcialmente (gl)
• German: teilweise (de), teils (de), zum Teil
• Greek: μερικώς (el) (merikós), εν μέρει (el) (en mérei)
• Hindi: आधो-आध (ādho-ādh)
• Hungarian: részben (hu), részlegesen (hu)
• Italian: parzialmente (it)
• Japanese: 部分的に (ja) (ぶぶんてきに, bubunteki ni)
• Kazakh: жарым-жартылай (jarım-jartılay)
• Luxembourgish: deelweis
• Macedonian: делумно (delumno)
• Norwegian: delvis
• Occitan: parcialament
• Polish: częściowo (pl)
• Portuguese: parcialmente (pt)
• Romanian: parțial (ro), în parte
• Russian: части́чно (ru) (častíčno), отча́сти (ru) (otčásti)
• Sanskrit: सामि (sa) (sāmi)
• Spanish: en parte (es), parcialmente
• Swedish: delvis (sv)
• Turkish: kısmen (tr)

Further reading

• “partially”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “partially”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “partially”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “partially” (US) / “partially” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “partially”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• "partially" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.