individuum

From Latin indīviduum, noun use of neuter singular of indīviduus (“indivisible”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪndɪˈvɪdjuːəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪndɪˈvɪduəm/

individuum (plural individuums or individua)

1. An indivisible entity.
2. A single individual person or thing.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:

     it seemeth unlikely, that God hath framed this peece of worke alone without a fellow; and that the matter of this forme hath wholly beene spent in this only Individuum […].

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individuum n

1. individual

   Synonym: jedinec

• See divize

• “individuum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “individuum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “individuum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.diːˈu̯i.du.um/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.diˈvi.du.um/,

indīviduum n (genitive indīviduī); second declension

1. atom
2. individuum, individual

Second-declension noun (neuter).

indīviduum

1. inflection of indīviduus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• “individuum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /indiʋǐːduum/
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧vi‧du‧um

indivíduum m (Cyrillic spelling индиви́дуум)

1. individual