divisim

D2I1V4I1S1I1M3
UK/dɪˈviːsɪm/

adverb

Separately.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adverbdivisim (not comparable)
  1. formalnot comparableSeparately.

    In Att[ic Greek], when σὲ αὐτόν, ἐμοὶ αὐτῷ, etc., are read divisim, they are emphatic, not reflexive.

    1940, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, s.v. “αὐτός”, sense A.I.10.b
adjectivedivisim (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWritten as two or more separate words.

    In connexion with the person[al] Pron[ouns], “ἐγὼν αὐτός” Od[yssey] 2.194; “σέθεν αὐτοῦ” Il[iad] 23.312; “νωΐτερον αὐτῶν” 15.39 (always divisim in Hom[er])…after Hom[er] in the oblique cases αὐτός coalesces with the Pron[oun], ἐμαυτοῦ, σεαυτοῦ…, ἑαυτοῦ, etc.

    1940, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, s.v. “αὐτός”, sense A.I.10

Origin

  1. Latindīvīsim“separately”
  2. Englishdivisim

Learned borrowing from Latin dīvīsim (“separately”).

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APA

divisim. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/divisim

MLA

“divisim.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/divisim. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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