partitio
χαῖρ', ὦ μέγ' ἀχρειόγελως ὅμιλε, ταῖς ἐπίβδαις, τῆς ἡμετέρας σοφίας κριτὴς ἄριστε πάντων → all hail, throng that laughs untimely on the day after the festival, best of all judges of our poetic skill
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
partītĭo: ōnis, f. 2. partio,
I a sharing, parting, partition; a division, distribution.
I In gen.: si quā in re discrepavit ab Antonii divisione nostra partitio, Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119: aequabilis praedae partitio, id. Off. 2, 11, 40: aerarii, id. Sest. 24, 54; esp., the division of an inheritance, id. Caecin. 5, 15; id. Leg. 2, 20, 50 sqq.: partitionem artium facere, id. de Or. 1, 6, 22; id. Fin. 1, 13, 45; Quint. 3, 4, 1: nec partitione minuitur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 10, 3 init.—
II In partic.
A In philos. lang., a logical division into parts or members, a partition: definitiones aliae sunt partitionum, aliae divisionum: partitionum, cum res ea, quae proposita est, quasi in membra discerpitur ... divisionum autem definitio formas omnes complectitur, quae sub eo genere sunt, quod definitur, etc., Cic. Top. 5, 28; cf.: in partitione quasi membra sunt: ut corporis caput, umeri, manus, latera, crura, pedes et cetera: in divisione formae sunt, quas Graeci ἰδέας vocant: nostri, si qui haec forte tractant, species appellant, id. ib. 6 fin.; so id. ib. 8, 34; Quint. 4, 5, 1 sqq.; 15, 10, 63; 7, 1, 1.—
B In rhet., a rhetorical division into parts or heads, a partition, the Gr. διαίρεσις; also used as a title of rhetorical treatises: recte habita in causā partitio illustrem et perspicuam totam efficit orationem, Cic. Inv. 1, 22, 31 sq.; Quint. 1, 2, 13.—So the title of Cicero's treatise De Partitione Oratoriā.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
partītĭō,¹³ ōnis, f. (partio), partage, division, répartition : Cic. Off. 2, 40 ; Sest. 54 ; in hac partitione ornatus Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 121, dans cette répartition des ornements [de la ville] || classification : oratoris officium partitione tertium Cic. Br. 19, le troisième devoir de l’orateur, d’après le classement || [rhét.] la division : Cic. Inv. 1, 31 ; Quint. 1, 2, 13 ; Partitiones oratoriæ, Divisions de l’art oratoire [titre d’un ouvrage de Cic.] || [philos.] énumération des parties : Cic. Top. 28 ; 30 ; 34 ; Quint. 4, 5, 1 ; 7, 1, 1.
