dīvīsiō
Meaning
- division
Sed divisio quoque adfert eandem iniuriam pudori, ut si 47‘intercapedinis’ nominativo casu quis utatur. 2002 translation by Donald A. Russell Division also, however, can cause offence to modesty, for instance, the use of the nominative intercapedo (The word intercapedo contains pedō (“to fart”))
c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilianus, Institutes 8.3.47 - distribution, allotment
proscriptionem civium, divisiones agrorum ne ipsis quidem qui fecere laudatas
The proscription of citizens and the allotments of land had not been approved even by those who had performed themc. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 1.10 - share
quattuor ediderat nunc functa puerpera partus, funera set tumulis iam geminata dedit. Sit satis hoc, Pauline pater; divisio facta est: debetur matri cetera progenies.
1919 translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White Four children had your mother borne in travail, but of these she has surrendered two already to the grave. Paulinus, be content with these; for they make up your fair share as father, and your remaining offspring are their mother’s due. (The father Paulinus was already dead)c. 310 CE – c. 394 CE, Ausonius, Parentalia 23.19–20
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Dividere · Partiri · Dirimere · Dispertire · Distribuere
1. Dividere and dirimere mean to divide something, merely in order to break the unity of the whole, and separate it into parts, whereas partiri means to divide, in order to get the parts of the whole, and to be able to dispose of them. Hence the phrases divide et impera, and dividere sententias, but partiri prædam. 2. Divisio denotes, theoretically, the separation of a genus into its species, whereas partitio, the separation of the whole into its parts. Quintil. v. 10, 63. Cic. Top. 5. 3. Dividere refers to a whole, of which the parts are merely locally and mechanically joined, and therefore severs only an exterior connection; but dirimere refers to a whole, of which the parts organically cohere, and destroys an interior connection. Liv. xxii. 15. Casilinum urbs . . . Volturno flumine dirempta Falernum ac Campanum agrum dividit: for the separation of a city into two halves by a river, is an interior separation, whereas the separation of two neighboring districts by a city, is an exterior separation. 4. Dividere means also to separate into parts, without any accessory notion, whereas dispertire, with reference to future possessors, and distribuere, with reference to the right owners, or to proper and suitable places. (iv. 156.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dīvīsiō | dīvīsiōnēs |
| genitive | dīvīsiōnis | dīvīsiōnum |
| dative | dīvīsiōnī | dīvīsiōnibus |
| accusative | dīvīsiōnem | dīvīsiōnēs |
| ablative | dīvīsiōne | dīvīsiōnibus |
| vocative | dīvīsiō | dīvīsiōnēs |
si divisio fieret, Just. 11, 13, 7: animae ac spiritus, Vulg. Hebr. 4, 12.—agrorum, Tac. A. 1, 10.—diversa, quae divisiones multiplices ingerebant, Amm. 22, 7, 3.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Latindīvīsiō
Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dīvīsiō From dīvidō (“divide”) + -tiō.
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