dichotomos
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διχότομος (dikhótomos, “cut in half”), from δίχα (díkha, “apart”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈkʰo.to.mos/, [d̪ɪˈkʰɔt̪ɔmɔs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈko.to.mos/, [d̪iˈkɔːt̪omos]
Adjective
dichotomos (neuter dichotomon); second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type)
- dichotomous, bipartite
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
- Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
Declension
Second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dichotomos | dichotomon | dichotomoe | dichotoma | |
| Genitive | dichotomī | dichotomōrum | |||
| Dative | dichotomō | dichotomīs | |||
| Accusative | dichotomon | dichotomōs | dichotoma | ||
| Ablative | dichotomō | dichotomīs | |||
| Vocative | dichotome | dichotomon | dichotomoe | dichotoma | |
Synonyms
- bipartītus
Descendants
- English: dichotomous
References
- “dichotomos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dichotomos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette