divisor Latin · revision 33018

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la dīvidō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [diːˈwiː.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diˈviː.s̬or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīvīsor''' ''m'' (genitive dīvīsōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dīvidō|-tor|t1=to divide]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and Köbler date it from Cicero,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who calls Antony the distributor of Italy's land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is above all one who divides things into shares, a distributor, as Eutropius' divider of a kingdom among sons.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Republican elections it was the agent a candidate hired to hand out bribes to voters, a man regarded as infamous;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of one brought up in the school of thieves and bribe agents.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short also give the official who saw to legal distributions to the tribes.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The elder Seneca uses it of a man who divides a theme into parts, and Apuleius calls the axis the divider of the world.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Boethius uses it as an arithmetical term, the divisor, and the Vulgate of a judge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of distributors and bribe agents.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of the axis of the world.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of a judge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One who divides into parts; a divider.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|distributor]]; an agent hired to distribute [[m|en|bribe|alt=bribes]] to voters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(arithmetic)'' A [[m|en|divisor]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A judge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[divido|alt=dīvidō]]

+ * [[divisio|alt=dīvīsiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}