particle

Etymology
From, and its source, , diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
 * 2)  Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
 * 3)  A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
 * 4)  A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
 * 5) * 1844, E. A. Andrews: First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. (6th edition, Boston), p.91 (at books.google)
 * 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
 * 1) * 1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (at books.google)
 * The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
 * 1)  In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
 * 2) A little bit.
 * 1) * 1894 (2008), B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge: Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar (reprint of the 3rd edition by Dover, 2008), p.9. (at books.google)
 * The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
 * 1)  In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
 * 2) A little bit.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:particle
 * p-word

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: partícula
 * Azerbaijani:, hissəcik
 * Bashkir: киҫәксә, бөртөк
 * Belarusian: часці́ца
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: части́ця
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, lille del
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნაწილაკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: particula
 * Irish: cáithnín
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: бөлшек, бүртік
 * Khmer: ចុណ្ណភាព
 * Korean: 입자(粒子), 립자(粒子)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ອະນຸພາກ
 * Latin: particula
 * Latvian: daļiņa
 * Lithuanian: dalelė
 * Macedonian: честичка
 * Maori: paku, pakuriki, korakora, matūriki
 * Norman: partitchule
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: مار
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag, criomag, mìr
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чѐстица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: častica
 * Slovene: delček, delec
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྡུལ་ཕྲན
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, , части́ця
 * Uyghur: زەررە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: partícula
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, elementarpartikel
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, subatominen hiukkanen ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნაწილაკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: patikil
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: particula
 * Irish: cáithnín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maori: korakora
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: үндсэн мөхлөг
 * Norman: partitchule
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чѐстица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: častica
 * Slovene: delec
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tipik
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ذَرَّہ
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: أَدَاة,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ədat
 * Belarusian: часці́ца
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: partikkel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Redeteilchen
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: particula
 * Irish: páirteagal, mír
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: демеулік
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: частица,
 * Lao: ອະນຸພາກ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: dalelytė
 * Macedonian: честичка
 * Maori: weu, pūtūmua, pūmahi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: partitchule
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mion-fhacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чѐстица
 * Roman:, , rèčca
 * Slovak: častica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: partikla
 * Upper Sorbian: časćica, partikla
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: geiryn


 * Old Norse: málfylling


 * Breton:  -où pl
 * Esperanto:
 * Interlingua:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: