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- Latin · derived fromquīndecupartītus
- English todayquindecupartite
From Latin quīndecupartītus, from quīndecim (“fifteen”) + partītus (“-partite, -part”) after the model of tripartītus &c., equivalent to quindec- + -partite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.