Etymograph

English

dividuous

Dividuous comes from Latin dividuus ‘divisible, divided’, from *vidō ‘to separate’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to divide’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁weydʰh₁-1‘to divide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wiðō1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*vidō1‘to separate’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdīvidō2as dividere‘to divide, separate’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdividuus2‘divisible, divided’
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1829dividuous2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin divido
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English dividuous
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1829, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “This is the main fault in Baxter's metaphysics, that…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁weydʰh₁-Wiktionary, Latin divido‘to divide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wiðōWiktionary, Latin dividoreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*vidōWiktionary, Latin divido‘to separate’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdīvidōWiktionary, English dividuousas dividere‘to divide, separate’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdividuusWiktionary, English dividuous‘divisible, divided’
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1829dividuousWiktionary, English dividuous. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1829, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “This is the main fault in Baxter's metaphysics, that…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to divide’

wood, wide, widow, fid, 12 more

through Latin dīvidō ‘to divide, separate’

device, division, devise, divisible, 6 more

through Latin dividuus ‘divisible, divided’

individual, 2 more

Today it means

adj divided; dividual

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “dividuous”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin divido. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- / dividuous

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