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- Latin · derived frompecūliāris“one's own”
- English todaypeculiar
From Latin pecūliāris (“one's own”), from pecūlium (“private property”), from pecus (“cattle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
peculiar
Today it means: Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual. Full definition →
Latin pecūliāris