{
    "meta": {
        "serviceProvider": {
            "name": "Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties, TELOTA - IT\/DH",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/en\/bbaw-digital\/telota"
        },
        "dataProvider": {
            "name": "Classical Language Dictionary",
            "link": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de"
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "self": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de\/api\/dictionary\/lemma\/dimidius?language=lat&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-04-17 15:35:46",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "dimidius",
        "language": "LAT",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "dimidius",
            "meanings": 1,
            "language": "lat",
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "dictionary": "Lewis Short",
                    "reference": "Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary",
                    "source": "https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059",
                    "description": "(adjective) : dī-mĭdĭus, a, um, medius\n* Half (for the diff. between it and dimidiatus, v. dimidio).\n* As an adj., until the Aug. per. only in connection with pars, e. g.: dimidiam partem nationum subegit,Plaut. Curc. 3, 77; id. Aul. 4, 10, 37; id. Rud. 4, 4, 79; Lucr. 1, 618 sq.; 5, 720; Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103; id. Rosc. Com. 11, 32; id. Fam. 13, 29, 4; Caes. B. G. 6, 31, 5; id. B. C. 1, 27; 3, 101 (twice); Sall. J. 64, 5; Suet. Caes. 42; Front. Strat. 2, 3, 21; Ov. F. 5, 122; id. Tr. 1, 2, 44 et saep.\n* Since the Aug. per., esp. in poets, also with other substantives, instead of dimidiatus (v. dimidio), divided into two equal parts, halved: mullus (opp. lupus totus),Mart. 2, 37, 4: crus,Juv. 13, 95: vultus,id. 15, 57: Memnone,id. 15, 5: forma circuli,Plin. 2, 59, 60, § 150: clepsydrae,id. Ep. 6, 2, 5: labro basia dare,i. e. slightly,Mart. 2, 10 and 22; so of busts: Priapus,Mart. 11, 18; cf. Cicero's pun on the half-length likeness of his brother Quintus: frater meus dimidius major est quam totus, in Macr. S. 2, 3 (the word dimidius, for dimidiatus, belongs prob. to Macr. himself).\n* Trop., so of persons of mixed descent: dimidius patrum, dimidius plebis,half patrician and half plebeian,Liv. 4, 2, 6. —Hence, subst.\n* Dīmidium, ii, n., the half (very freq. in all periods and kinds of writing): horae, Lucil. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 11; so with gen., Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 73; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 67; 71 et saep.; absol., Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 87; id. Ps. 4, 7, 68; 5, 2, 29; id. Pers. 1, 2, 17 et saep.; abl. dimidio, with comparatives: dimidio minus opinor,less by half,Plaut. As. 2, 4, 35; Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2; id. Fl. 20, 46; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33; Caes. B. G. 5, 13, 2; Hor. S. 2, 3, 318 et saep.\n* Like a comp. with quam: vix dimidium militum quam quod acceperat successori tradidit,Liv. 35, 1, 2; 45, 18, 7.—Prov.: dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet,well begun is half done,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 40; cf. Aus. Ep. 81.\n* Rarely dī-midia, ae, f. (sc. pars), the half: verbenaca decocta in aqua ad dimidias,Plin. 26, 12, 73, § 120."
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "TLL",
                    "reference": "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae",
                    "source": "https:\/\/thesaurus.badw.de",
                    "description": "s. <a href='https:\/\/tll-open.badw.de\/de\/thesaurus\/lemmata#34567'>TLL<\/a>"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}