singulus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *senɣelos, from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”) + distributive particle *ǵʰe (compare Albanian gjithë).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsin.ɡu.lus/, [ˈs̠ɪŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsin.ɡu.lus/, [ˈsiŋɡulus]
Adjective
singulus (feminine singula, neuter singulum); first/second-declension adjective
- single
- apiece
- every
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 16:
- in singula diei tempora
- in every hour of the day
- in singula diei tempora
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13:
- Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.
- It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.
- Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 17:
- Caesar cum [...] singulas legiones appellaret
- when Caesar addressed every legions
- Caesar cum [...] singulas legiones appellaret
- one each, one at a time
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | singulus | singula | singulum | singulī | singulae | singula | |
| Genitive | singulī | singulae | singulī | singulōrum | singulārum | singulōrum | |
| Dative | singulō | singulō | singulīs | ||||
| Accusative | singulum | singulam | singulum | singulōs | singulās | singula | |
| Ablative | singulō | singulā | singulō | singulīs | |||
| Vocative | singule | singula | singulum | singulī | singulae | singula | |
Derived terms
- singulāris
- singulārius
- singulātim/ singillātim
Descendants
- Aromanian: singur
- Asturian: cenciellu (from diminutive)
- Catalan: senzill (via Spanish), sengles
- Dalmatian: sanglo
- English: single (via Old French)
- Friulian: sengul
- Irish: singil (via English)
- Italian: singolo
- Galician: senllos; sinxelo (from diminutive)
- Old French: sengle
- Portuguese: singelo (from diminutive)
- Romanian: singur
- Sicilian: sìngulu
- Spanish: sendos, sencillo (from diminutive)
See also
singulī
References
- “singulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “singulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- singulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- singulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- year by year; day by day: singulis annis, diebus
- from day to day: in dies (singulos)
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- year by year; day by day: singulis annis, diebus
- Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 566.