dichotomos

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διχότομος (dikhótomos, “cut in half”), from δίχα (díkha, “apart”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈkʰo.to.mos/, [d̪ɪˈkʰɔt̪ɔmɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈko.to.mos/, [d̪iˈkɔːt̪omos]

Adjective

dichotomos (neuter dichotomon); second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type)

1. 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 quotation)

Declension

Second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type).

	singular			plural
	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.