divortium

Latin

Etymology

From divertere.

Pronunciation

Noun

dīvortium n (genitive dīvortiī or dīvortī); second declension

  1. separation
  2. divorce

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dīvortium dīvortia
genitive dīvortiī
dīvortī1
dīvortiōrum
dative dīvortiō dīvortiīs
accusative dīvortium dīvortia
ablative dīvortiō dīvortiīs
vocative dīvortium dīvortia

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

Descendants

  • Asturian: divorciu
  • Catalan: divorci
  • French: divorce
  • Galician: divorcio
  • Italian: divorzio
  • Occitan: divòrci
  • Piedmontese: divòrsi
  • Portuguese: divórcio
  • Romanian: divorț
  • Spanish: divorcio

References

  • divortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • divortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • divortium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
  • divortium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • divortium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin