partition Copy link Outline I. The act of parting or dividingII. That which parts or divides1. septum (saep.)2. păries, ĕtis, m. (wall of a house)III. A compartment • partition: I. The act of parting or dividing: partītio: fair p. of spoil aequabilis praedae p., Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40. Esp. the logical or rhetorical p. of a subject: Cic.: Quint. (Or expr. by partior, to make a p. of: v. to divide.) II. That which parts or divides: 1. septum (saep.): v. fence. 2. păries, ĕtis, m. (wall of a house): v. wall. (Or expr. by verb: small chambers separated by wooden p.s, *cubicula parva tabulis distincta et loculata; cubiculorum series loculatorum: cf. infr., III.). III. A compartment: lŏcŭlāmentum: the p.s (in an aviary) in which the birds make their nests, l. (in) quibus nidificant aves, Col. 8, 8: Vitr. Furnished with p.s, loculatus: boxes divided into p.s (for colours), arculae loculatae, Varr. 3, 17.
PARTITION Copy link • PARTITIONAct of parting, partitio; divisio, or by the verb. That which divides, intergerium (Plin.): a partition wall, paries communis; (paries) intergerinus (Plin.). Compartment, loculus; loculamentum.