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particula

small part

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Where it lives

Timaeus 4 · 9.47/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 32 · 2.86/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 8 · 1.41/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. particula — de Vaan

particula 'small part' (Varro+), particulatim 'bit by bit', particulo 'a coheir' (Pompon.+); expers 'having no share, free' (P1.+); particeps 'participant1 (Andr,+), participare *to share* (PI.+), participium 'participle' (Varro+), participalis 'participial' (Varro+); dispertire 'to separate, divide up' (P1.+), impertfre 'to give a share, present with' (PI.-*-), bipertftus 'bipartite' (Varro+), tripertitus … — [de Vaan, s.v. particula, p. 462]

2. partĭcŭla — Lewis & Short

partĭcŭla, ae, f.dim.pars,

I a small part, a little bit, a particle.

I In gen. (class.): tenuissimae particulae, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162: ut ne qua particula in hoc sermone praetermissa sit, id. Rep. 1, 24, 38: caeli, id. ib. 1, 39, 179: justitiae, id. Off. 2, 11, 40: particula parva, id. Pis. 35, 85: arenae, Hor. C. 1, 28, 23: undique desectam, id. ib. 1, 16, 14: minutae rerum particulae, Quint. 3, 11, 21; cf. Val. Max. 6, 9, 7: malorum, Juv. 13, 14.—

II In partic.

A In rhet. lang., a clause of a sentence, Quint. 9, 4, 69; 4, 5, 25; 7, 10, 6; 8, 3, 63; 10, 3, 30. —

B In gram., a particle, Gell. 2, 17, 6; 2, 19, 3; 7, 7, 6; 11, 3, 2 et saep.

In the wild

particula Cicero, De Oratore 3.109
particula Tertullian, De Pudicitia 19
particulas Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.M1.p1
particulae Cicero, Timaeus 24
particula Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.14.a
particulae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.17.8

6 of 105 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. particula (scan p. 462; entry #1269). Root candidates: *parti-.

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