köken: From Latin parasītus, from Ancient Greek παράσῑτος (parásītos, “person who eats at the table of another”). Ending reshaped by erroneous analogy with the suffix -ita, from Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).
köken: From earlier form زلو (zalū) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (złwk' /zalūg/) from Proto-Iranian *jaluš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́aluš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelu-. Akin to Old Armenian տզրուկ (tzruk); an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Borrowed from Russian парази́т (parazít), from French parasite, from Latin parasītus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).
parasite (a (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources needed by another (generally desirable) living organism) · a parasite (person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back)
çekim: çoğul parasitter · tamlayan parasits
eş: snylter
köken: Via Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos).
Borrowed from Middle French parasite, from Latin parasitus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos). First attested in the 16th century. The sense “parasitic organism” is a semantic loan from French parasite.