bipertito Latin · revision 35719

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la pars}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bipertītō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|bipertītus|t=divided into two parts]], with the adverbial ending ⟨-ō⟩;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) it is also spelled ⟨bipart-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) That adjective, recorded from Varro on, is made of [[m|la|bi-|t=two]] and [[m|la|partītus|t=divided]], the participle of [[m|la|partiō]], and de Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|pars|t=part]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL's earliest instance is in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', where something is divided “doubly and in two parts”.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of things or people divided into two groups: Cicero writes of a fleet distributed in two parts and of men who stationed themselves in two groups in the villas near the Mulvian bridge, Caesar of troops attacking in two divisions and of ambushes laid in two places in the woods, and Livy of horsemen sent out in two bodies.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) With ''esse'' it means “to be divided”.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of a mind split between two loves.^(TLL)

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+ Cicero also uses it for “in two ways”, as when something is removed in two ways or things are distinguished both by nature and by convention.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of a twofold division.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a fleet divided in two and for “in two ways”.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of troops attacking in two divisions.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy uses it of cavalry sent out in two bodies.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In two parts or [[m|en|division|alt=divisions]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) ''bipertītō esse'', to be divided.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # In two ways.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The corresponding adverb for three parts is [[tripertītō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}