The story
- Latin · derived fromsingulus“single”
- Latin · derived fromsingulāris“alone of its kind”
- Middle English · inherited fromsinguler
- English todaysingular
From Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris (“alone of its kind”), from Latin singulus (“single”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishsinguler all →
singler
Latinsingulāris all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.