partícula
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Asturian
Pronunciation
Noun
partícula f (plural partícules)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part”). Doublet of parcel·la, which was borrowed from French parcelle.
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Noun
partícula f (plural partícules)
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Galician
Pronunciation
Noun
partícula f (plural partículas)
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part”). Doublet of partilha, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ikulɐ
- Hyphenation: par‧tí‧cu‧la
Noun
partícula f (plural partículas)
- particle (body with very small size)
- Synonyms: corpúsculo, fragmento, grão, pedaço
- (Christianity) host (consecrated bread)
- Synonym: hóstia
- (linguistics) particle (word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech)
- (physics) elementary particle
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin particula. Doublet of partija, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
Noun
partícula f (plural partículas)
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Further reading
- “partícula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014