particula

See also: partícula and particulă

Latin

Etymology

From pars (“part, piece”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /parˈti.ku.la/, [pärˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /parˈti.ku.la/, [pärˈt̪iːkulä]

Noun

particula f (genitive particulae); first declension

1. diminutive of pars (“part, piece”): small part, particle

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	particula	particulae
genitive	particulae	particulārum
dative	particulae	particulīs
accusative	particulam	particulās
ablative	particulā	particulīs
vocative	particula	particulae

Derived terms

• particulāris
• particulātim
• particella

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance: (unexpected /ˈi/ perhaps from analogy with partīre)
  • Aragonese: partilla
  • Asturian: partiya
  • Galician: partilla
  • Portuguese: partilha
  • Spanish: partija

Borrowings:

• → Aragonese: partícula
• → Asturian: partícula
• → Catalan: partícula
• → English: particle
• → French: particule
• → Galician: partícula
• → German: Partikel
• → Irish: páirteagal
• → Italian: particola
• → Norman: partitchule
• → Portuguese: partícula
• → Romanian: particulă
• → Sicilian: partìcula
• → Spanish: partícula

Calques:

• → Afrikaans: deeltjie (calque)
• → Azerbaijani: hissəcik (calque)
• → Belarusian: часці́ца (čascíca) (calque)
• → Bulgarian: части́ца (častíca) (calque)
• → Carpathian Rusyn: части́ця (častýcja) (calque)
• → Chuvash: пайӑрка (pajărk̬a) (calque)
• → Czech: částice (calque)
• → Dutch: deeltje (calque)
• → Estonian: osake (calque)
• → Georgian: ნაწილაკი (nac̣ilaḳi) (calque)
• → German: Teilchen (calque)
• → Hungarian: részecske (calque)
• →? Kazakh: бөлшек (bölşek) (calque)
• →? Kyrgyz: бөлүкчө (bölükcö) (calque)
• → Latgalian: daleņa (calque)
• → Latvian: daļiņa (calque)
• → Limburgish: deilke (calque)
• → Lithuanian: dalelė (calque)
• → Macedonian: честичка (čestička) (calque)
• → Old Armenian: մասնիկ (masnik) (calque)
  • Armenian: մասնիկ (masnik)
• → Polish: cząstka (calque)
• → Russian: части́ца (častíca) (calque)
• → Serbo-Croatian: čèstica, чѐстица (calque)
• → Slovak: častica (calque)
• → Slovene: delček, delec (calque)
• → Turkish: parçacık (calque)
• → Turkmen: bölejik (calque)
• → Ukrainian: части́нка (častýnka), ча́стка (částka), части́ця (častýcja) (calque)
• → West Frisian: dieltsje (calque)
• → Yiddish: טיילכל (teylkhl) (calque)

References

• “particula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “particula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• particula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• particula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.