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"to divide" in seven languages

Meaningto divide

Spanish

dividir

/dibiˈdiɾ/

learned

French

diviser

/divize/

learned

Built on the participle DĪVĪSUM, hence the s.

Italian

dividere

/diˈvidere/

learned

Portuguese

dividir

/dʒiviˈdʒih/

learned

Romanian

împărți

/ɨmpərˈtsi/

other source · Latin IMPARTĪRE 'to share out'

Learned divide is kept for arithmetic.

Catalan

dividir

/dibiˈdi/

learned

English

divide

/dɪˈvaɪd/

from Latin/French · Latin DĪVIDERE

English → Italianto dividedividereCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

DĪVIDERE‘to separate, split’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Spanish and Italian took the Latin infinitive, French the participle stem (divis-), which English also shows in division. An 'individual' is someone who cannot be divided.

English relatives: division, individual, device, divisor

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In a sentence

  • esDivide la tarta en ocho trozos.
  • frDivise le gâteau en huit parts.
  • itDividi la torta in otto fette.
  • ptDivida o bolo em oito pedaços.
  • roÎmparte tortul în opt bucăți.
  • caDivideix el pastís en vuit trossos.
  • enDivide the cake into eight pieces.

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