dimidium

Latin

Etymology

From dīmidius (“half, halved”).

Noun

dīmidium n (genitive dīmidiī or dīmidī); second declension

1. half

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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
• dimidium 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)
• dimidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.