The story
- Latin · derived fromdimidium“half”
- English todaydimidium dimidiumque
Pseudo-Latinism, derived from reduplication of Latin dimidium (“half”) with -que (“and”) as a humorous English-to-Latin calque of half and half, once used by students.
Words from the same roots
Latindimidium all →
Dimidium
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