divide – English noun declension

English noun forms of divide

Noun: divide
Singulardivide
Pluraldivides

Sample Sentences

  • Stay on your side of the divide, please.
  • The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
  • The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done. [1975, Byte, numbers 1-8, page 14:]
  • There is a great divide between us.
  • Republicans and Democrats interpret individualism differently, and those divides are more pronounced than ever in our deeply polarized political climate. [2020 May 19, Scottie Andrew, “America’s response to the coronavirus is the most American thing ever”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2020:]
  • If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
  • The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
  • Carrying light packs they left camp at daylight the next morning. Trails there were none; but they followed the general course of a small creek, crossed a divide, and dipped down into a beautifully timbered valley watered by a swift, large creek of almost riverlike dimensions. [1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
10. Proto-Italic *wiðō
11. Latin *vidō
12. Latin dīvidōder.
13. Middle English dividen
14. English divide
15. PIE word
16. *dwóh₁
17. From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan related to English deal which formerly meant a “portion” or “part” of something. See: Latin Nouns 'dīvidō'.