ÚNICO
Latin Lemma
ūnĭcus
Latin Meaning
'one and no more; only, sole, single; alone of its kind, singular, uncommon, unparalleled, unique' (both ameliorative, 'unparalleled' and pejorative, 'singularly bad') L&S
While Lat. ūnĭcus is only used in the Vulgate New Testament by Luke to refer to an only child, translating Gk μονογενης, it is not used of Jesus as the only Son of God. Elsewhere in the New Testament (John, Hebrews, Epistle of John) μονογενης is translated into Lat. as unigenitus.
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English Lemma
vnique
English Variants
none
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English Morphologically related words
uniquely, uniqueness OED
English First attestation
Engendring one eternitie, and by an alone vnique action [Fr. d'vne action vnique] neuer disturbed, his linage full of vnderstanding (OED: R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 6, 1601)
English Semantic history
‘The adjective was not fully naturalized until the second half of the 19th cent., and its use was sometimes deprecated; it was entered in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (1818) as a foreign word and characterized as “an affected and useless term of modern times”.’ (OED)