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Latin
Etymology
dīmidiō (“I halve”, stem with thematic vowel: dīmidiā-) + -tiō (suffix forming verbal nouns)
Pronunciation
Noun
dīmidiātiō f (genitive dīmidiātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) a halving, a dividing into halves
Unde hæc dimidiatio salutis.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (Medieval Latin, heraldry) a dimidiation (marshalling of two coats of arms from the dexter half of one coat and the sinister half of the other)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “dīmĭdĭātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dimidiatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dīmĭdĭātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 529–530.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dimidiatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 333