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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pseudo-Apuleius|origins=la pars}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [par.tɪ.kʊˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [par.ti.kuˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''particulāris''' (neuter particulāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|particula|-āris|t1=small part]],^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) a diminutive of [[pars]] “part”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The Pseudo-Apuleian treatise on logic, Peri Hermeneias, divides propositions into universal and particular.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates it to the end of the 4th century AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was a post-classical word meaning of or concerning a part, particular, as opposed to universal in logic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In the Codes of Theodosius and Justinian it meant partial, as a partial confiscation, and Theodorus Priscianus uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The adverb ''particulāriter'' meant “in particular”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In medieval Latin it meant particular and partial.^(Niermeyer 1976) British writers used it of part-payment and of a partial eclipse.^(DMLBS) [[en|particular]] is recorded in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * end of 4th century AD – The Pseudo-Apuleian Peri Hermeneias speaks of particular propositions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''particular'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of a part, ''(logic)'' [[m|en|particular]], as opposed to universal.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|Partial]].^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of a part-payment; of a partial eclipse.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[superparticularis]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pars]]
+ * [[en|particular]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}