divisor

PIE word
*dwóh₁

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-vīʹ-zər, IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪ.zɚ/

• Audio (US):

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  • Homophone: diviser
• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

divisor (plural divisors)

1. (arithmetic) A number or expression by which another is to be divided.

   In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.

2. An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times.

   The positive divisors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6.

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

• Vidrios, viroids

Borrowed from Latin dīvīsōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.βiˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.viˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.viˈzoɾ]

divisor m (plural divisors)

1. (arithmetic) divisor (number that another is to be divided by)

• dividir

• “divisor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

divisor c (singular definite divisoren, plural indefinite divisorer)

1. (number theory) divisor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diːˈu̯iː.sor/, [d̪iːˈu̯iːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈvi.sor/, [d̪iˈviːs̬or]

dīvīsor m (genitive dīvīsōris); third declension

1. divider
2. distributor (especially of bribes)

Third-declension noun.

• “divisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• divisor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• divisor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “divisor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “divisor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin dīvīsōrem.

• Hyphenation: di‧vi‧sor

divisor m (plural divisores)

1. (arithmetic) divisor

• dividendo
• dividido
• dividir
• divisão

From Latin divisor.

• IPA^(key): /dibiˈsoɾ/ [d̪i.β̞iˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: di‧vi‧sor

divisor (feminine divisora, masculine plural divisores, feminine plural divisoras)

1. dividing

divisor m (plural divisores)

1. (arithmetic) divisor (number that another is to be divided by)

• “divisor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28