To giue parte, or take part: to make partner or of counsaile. Seruum consilij participare. Plau. To make a seruaunt of his counsaile. -non potuit quin suo sermone aliquem familiarium Participauerit de heri amica. Plaut. He conlde not choose but tel some of his familiars of his maisters paramour. Aliquem prandio participare. Apuleius. To giue one a dinner: to make one dine with him. Sequitur igitur ad participandum alium ab alio, communicandumque inter omnes, iustos natura esse factos. Cice. Participare consilium cum aliquo. Papinia. To make one of his counsaile: to communicate his counsaile with one. Su as laudes participare cum Cæsone. Liu. To make Cæson partaker of his praises. Pestem participare. Ci. To be partaker of a mischiefe. Laudes participare. Liu. To be partaker of praises. Particulones. Coheires, or parteners that haue an heritage togither. Participium. Quint. A participle.

I. Adj.

(a). With gen.: fac participes nos tuae sapientiae, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 81: nuntii, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 19: esse participem leti, i. e. to be mortal, Lucr. 3, 462: animus rationis compos et particeps, Cic. Univ. 8: fortunarum omnium socius et particeps, id. Font. 17, 47: artis, id. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Inv. 2, 30, 92: virtutes ita copulatae conexaeque sunt, ut omnes omnium participes sint, id. Fin. 5, 23, 67: praedae ac praemiorum, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: secreti honesti, Juv. 3, 52.—

(b). With dat.: aliquem participem studiis habere, Ov. P. 2, 5, 41 (al. studii): alicujus consilii fortibus viris esse participem, Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. id. 6, 6, 36: sceleris in regem suum, id. 6, 24: Natalis particeps ad omne secretum Pisoni erat, Tac. A. 15, 50. —

(g). With a prep.: non licet donati obsoni me participem fieri, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 34 Speng.: particeps in tribulatione, Vulg. Apoc. 1, 9.—

(d). With a rel.-clause: is speculatum huc misit me, ut, quae fierent, fieret particeps, Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 19.—

II. Subst., a sharer, partaker, partner.—Esp., a comrade, fellow-soldier: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 512, 32: me et semul participes meos praedā onerabo, Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 14: praedam participes petunt, id. Most. 1, 3, 154: meus particeps, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 98: hujus belli ego particeps et socius et adjutor esse cogor, Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5: in quādam conjuratione quasi participes nominati, Suet. Calig. 56; cf. Curt. 6, 8, 5.

I. To make partaker of, to give a share of, to acquaint with, make privy to, impart, inform of any thing.

A. Lit.: aliquem sermone suo de amicā eri, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 108: servum sui consilii, id. Cist. 1, 3, 17: ubi sint, quid agant, ecqui bene agant, Neque participant nos, neque redeunt, id. Stich. 1, 1, 33.—Pass.: non licet donati obsoni me participem fieri? Ast. Si volebas participari, etc., id. Truc. 4, 2, 34: uti dentes sensu participentur, Lucr. 3, 692: sequitur igitur, ad participandum alium ab alio homines naturā esse factos, Cic. Leg. 1, 12, 33.—

B. Transf.: aliquid cum aliquo, to share with, impart to one: suas laudes cum aliquo, Liv. 3, 12, 5; Spart. Hadr. 26.—With dat. (late Lat.): non participabant aliis ii, quibus aliquid affluebat, Lact. 5, 6, 1.—Pass.: participato cum eo (fratre) regno, Just. 34, 2, 8: participato imperio, Treb. Gall. 12 init.: nec cum quoquam participatis nocturnis imaginibus, App. M. 8, 9, p. 205, 19.—

II. To share in, partake of, participate in any thing: pestem parem, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39 (Trag. v 22 Vahl.): lucrum, damnum, Dig. 17, 2, 55: consilium alicujus, Mamert. Grat. Act. Jul. init.: ad participandas ejusmodi voluptates, Gell. 15, 2, 7: de uno pane, Vulg. 1 Cor 10, 17.—With abl. alone: patrio sepulchro participans, Vulg. 2 Macc. 5, 10.—Hence, partĭcĭpā-tum, i, n. (lit. made to participate; hence), in gram., a participle (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 3, 227.