"Participle" is a word in ENGLISH

A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and
adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but
taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the
sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted
by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare
participles.

Anything that partakes of the nature of different
things.