divortium

Latin

Etymology

From divertere.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diːˈu̯or.ti.um/, [d̪iːˈu̯ɔrt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈvor.t͡si.um/, [d̪iˈvɔrt̪͡s̪ium]

Noun

dīvortium n (genitive dīvortiī or dīvortī); second declension

1. separation
2. divorce

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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