dimidium

Latin

Etymology

From dīmidius (“half, halved”).

Noun

dīmidium n (genitive dīmidiī or dīmidī); second declension

1. half

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	dīmidium	dīmidia
genitive	dīmidiī dīmidī1	dīmidiōrum
dative	dīmidiō	dīmidiīs
accusative	dīmidium	dīmidia
ablative	dīmidiō	dīmidiīs
vocative	dīmidium	dīmidia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: demi-, demy
• French: demi
• Welsh: dimei

References

• dimidium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dimidium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “dimidium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “dimidium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)