The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδιχότομος“cut in half”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromdichotomos
- English todaydichotomous
From Late Latin dichotomos, from Ancient Greek διχότομος (dikhótomos, “cut in half”). By surface analysis, dichotomy + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδιχότομος all →
dichotomize
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.