singulus

From Proto-Italic *senɣelos, from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”) + distributive particle *ǵʰe (compare Albanian gjithë).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsin.ɡu.lus/, [ˈs̠ɪŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsin.ɡu.lus/, [ˈsiŋɡulus]

singulus (feminine singula, neuter singulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. single
2. apiece
3. every

   Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 16:

   in singula diei tempora

   in every hour of the day

   • 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.

   • Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 17:

     Caesar cum [...] singulas legiones appellaret

     when Caesar addressed every legions

4. one each, one at a time

First/second-declension adjective.

• singulāris
• singulārius
• singulātim/ singillātim

singulī

• “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