divortium
Latin
Etymology
From divertere.
Noun
dīvortium n (genitive dīvortiī or dīvortī); second declension
- separation
- divorce
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dīvortium | dīvortia |
| Genitive | dīvortiī dīvortī1 | dīvortiōrum |
| Dative | dīvortiō | dīvortiīs |
| Accusative | dīvortium | dīvortia |
| Ablative | dīvortiō | dīvortiīs |
| Vocative | dīvortium | dīvortia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Asturian: divorciu
- Catalan: divorci
- French: divorce
- Galician: divorcio
- Italian: divorzio
- Occitan: divòrci
- Piedmontese: divòrsi
- Portuguese: divórcio
- Spanish: divorcio
References
- “divortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “divortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- divortium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
- to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
- “divortium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “divortium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin