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particular: particular: [14] Latin particula (source of English parcel and particle) was a diminutive form of pars ‘part’, and denoted ‘small part’. From it was derived the adjective particulāris, which denoted ‘concerned with small parts, or details’ (as opposed to ‘concerned with wider aspects of a matter’). English acquired it via Old French particuler.
=> part, particle
particular (adj.): late 14c., "pertaining to a single thing or person," from Old French particuler (14c., Modern French particulier) and directly from Late Latin particularis "of a part, concerning a small part," from Latin particula "particle" (see particle). Sense of "precise, exacting" first recorded 1814.
particular (n.): "a part or section of a whole," late 14c., from particular (adj.). Particulars "small details of statement" is from c. 1600.

词根词缀： -part-分,局部 + -icular形容词词尾

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来自particle,个体，颗粒。即个别的，引申词义特别的，特殊的。