Partícula, læ, pen. cor. f. g. Diminut. Cic.A parcell: a portion: a member: a little part.Particula minima malorum.Iuuen.Iustitiæ particula.Cicer.Perfecti quædam particula est homo non perfectus.Cic.Venti particulam sentire. Lucret. Minutæ rerum particulæ. Quint. Tennissimæ particulæ.Cic. Facere particulas. Quint. To dinide in small partes or portions. Desecta particula. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
partĭcŭla, ae, f.dim. [pars], a small part, a little bit, a particle.I. In gen. (class.): tenuissimae particulae, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162: ut ne qua particula in hoc sermone praetermissa sit, id. Rep. 1, 24, 38: caeli, id. ib. 1, 39, 179: justitiae, id. Off. 2, 11, 40: particula parva, id. Pis. 35, 85: arenae, Hor. C. 1, 28, 23: undique desectam, id. ib. 1, 16, 14: minutae rerum particulae, Quint. 3, 11, 21; cf. Val. Max. 6, 9, 7: malorum, Juv. 13, 14.—II. In partic. A. In rhet. lang., a clause of a sentence, Quint. 9, 4, 69; 4, 5, 25; 7, 10, 6; 8, 3, 63; 10, 3, 30. —B. In gram., a particle, Gell. 2, 17, 6; 2, 19, 3; 7, 7, 6; 11, 3, 2 et saep.
