Latin

Noun

dīmidium n ‎(genitive dīmidiī or dīmidī); second declension

1. half

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Descendants

• English: demi-
• French: demi

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dimidium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.