英语词汇parliament的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	parliament
词源	Parliament. The British Parliament, where so many debates are heard, takes its name from the French parler, “to talk.” In fact, the word came into Middle English as parlement. A Parle- ment under the old régime in France was the sovereign court of justice, a kind of Supreme Court that had some administrative powers.
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