portion

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 310 words | Copyright

portion part allotted, share XIII; part of a whole XIV. — OF. porcion, (also mod.) portion — L. portiō, -ōn-, attested first in phr. prō portiōne portionally, in PROPORTION.
So portion vb. APPORTION XIV; dower XVIII. — OF. portionner (medL. portiōnāre).

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