particulo

Forms

particulō m (genitive particulōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin particula + -ō.^[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It occurs only in a fragment of Pomponius' Atellan farces, quoted by Nonius Marcellus about the turn of the 5th century AD,^[3][4][5] who explains: particulones dicti sunt coheredes, quod partes patrimonii sumant, “coheirs are called particulones because they take shares of the inheritance”.^[6][3]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short mark it as ante-classical and render it more broadly as a sharer or partaker.^[6] The word survives only through Nonius' quotation.^[3]

Timeline

• end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th century AD – Nonius Marcellus quotes it from Pomponius and explains it.^[3][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A coheir, one who has a share in an inheritance.^[2][4][7][8]
2. A sharer, partaker.^[6][4]

Related words

• pars

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
8. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier