noun
dīvīsus
Meaning
- a division
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
in partēs sēparātusdīvīsus -a -um — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 10
dīvīsus, ūs, m. id.,
I. a division, apportionment (very rare, and only in the dat.):
quanta Macedonia esset, quam divisui facilis, how easily divided, Liv. 45, 30, 2; id. 33, 46 fin.; 1, 54 fin.; Gell. 20, 1, 40 (but in Liv. 4, 56, 6, the right reading is divisa).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dīvīsus
P. of divido.
(dīvīsus, ūs) m
divido, a division, distribution . — Only dat sing. : bona divisui fuere, L.: divisui facilis Macedonia, easily divided , L.