particular
English
/pɚˈtɪkjəlɚ/, /pəˈtɪkjələ/, /pəˈtɪkjəlɚ/
adj
Definitions
- (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
- Specific; discrete; concrete.
- Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
- (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
- Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
- (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
- (law) Containing a part only; limited.
- (legal) Holding a particular estate.
- (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
Etymology
Borrowed from particuler borrowed from Middle French particuler derived from Latin particularis, particula (particle, small part, part) suffix from English particle.
Origin
English
particle
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiparticle English
- astroparticle English
- bioparticle English
- cosmoparticle English
- ferroparticle English
- geoparticle English
- holoparticle English
- immunoparticle English
- infraparticle English
- interparticle English
- intraparticle English
- lipoviroparticle English
- macroparticle English
- microparticle English
- monoparticle English
- monoparticular English
- multiparticle English
- nanoparticle English
- nanoparticular English
- overparticular English
- paraparticle English
- particle English
- particularisation English
- particularism English
- particularist English
- particularistic English
- particularization English
- particularize English
- particularizer English
- particularly English
- particularment English
- particularness English
- pseudoparticle English
- quasiparticle English
- radioparticle English
- retroparticle English
- ribonucleoparticle English
- sparticle English
- subparticle English
- superparticle English
- supraparticle English
- unparticle English
- unparticular English
- *particella Latin
- *particla Latin
- particella Latin
- particula Latin
- particularis Latin
- particulatim Latin
- partikuláris Hungarian
- particola Italian
- particolare Italian
- particulier Dutch, Flemish
- partikel Dutch, Flemish
- parcelle French
- particule French
- partícula Spanish, Castilian
- partikkel Norwegian Bokmål
- partícula Portuguese
- パーティクル Japanese
- partykuła Polish
- partikkel Norwegian Nynorsk
- páirteagal Irish
- partikel Danish
- partikule Czech
- particuler Old French
- particulier Old French
- particular Catalan, Valencian
- partikelir Indonesian
- partikula Latvian
- partikulo Ido
- partitchule Norman
- pako Albanian
- particuler Middle French
- particuler xno
- particuler Ladin
- particle
- sparticle
- unparticle
- subparticle
- geoparticle
- bioparticle
- nanoparticle
- antiparticle
- unparticular
- holoparticle
- particularly
- monoparticle
- paraparticle
- supraparticle
- multiparticle
- retroparticle
- quasiparticle
- superparticle
- infraparticle
- ferroparticle
- interparticle
- intraparticle
- particularist
- particularize
- cosmoparticle
- astroparticle
- particularism
- macroparticle
- microparticle
- radioparticle
- particularizer
- particularment
- particularness
- nanoparticular
- pseudoparticle
- monoparticular
- immunoparticle
- overparticular
- particularistic
- lipoviroparticle
- particularisation
- particularization
- ribonucleoparticle