dichotomos

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪˈkʰɔ.tɔ.mɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈkɔː.t̪o.mos]

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.

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

• bipartītus

• English: dichotomous

• “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.