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英文词源

inpidual: inpidual: [15] To begin with, inpidual retained in English its ancestral meaning ‘not able to be pided’: ‘in the name of the holy and inpidual Trinity’. Richard Whitbourne, Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland 1623. It was borrowed from medieval Latin indīviduālis, a derivative of Latin indīviduus ‘not pisible’, which in turn was based on dīviduus, a derivative of the verb dīvidere ‘pide’. The semantic move from ‘not pisible’ to ‘single, separate’ took place in the 17th century. (English acquired the formally parallel inpisible, incidentally, in the 14th century.)
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inpidual (adj.): early 15c., "one and inpisible" (with reference to the Trinity), from Medieval Latin inpidualis, from Latin inpiduus "inpisible," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + piduus "pisible," from pidere "pide" (see pide). Not common before c. 1600 and the 15c. usage might be isolated. Sense of "single, separate" is 1610s; meaning "intended for one person" is from 1889.
inpidual (n.): "single object or thing," c. 1600, from inpidual (adj.). Colloquial sense of "person" is attested from 1742. Latin inpiduum meant "an atom, inpisible particle;" in Middle English inpiduum was used in sense of "inpidual member of a species" from early 15c.

in-,不，非，pide,分开，分割。即不可分割的，原指耶稣的圣父，圣灵，圣子三位一体不可分开，后用来指单个的人，个人，个体。

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词根词缀： in-否定 + -pid-分 + -ual形容词词尾 → 不再分割的