partitio: distributio: descriptio [SYN. in To DIVIDE]. (☞ divisio is foreign to standard prose in this meaning, and digestio only occurs in conjunction with ciborum): assignatio (with reference to estates or landed property, agrorum): dispensatio (e.g., annonae; Liv., 10, 11): largitio (the distribution of money, largesses, etc.). Equal distribution of the booty, aequabilis praedae partitio.