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dimidium dimidiumque

dimidium dimidiumque noun: half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar).

Noun

dimidium dimidiumque (uncountable)

  1. (UK, humorous, obsolete, slang) half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)
    • And when the young Anglo-Roma Gents went out between the acts, in order to imbibe dimidium dimidiumque, or gingiber, (doubtless the ginger-beer of the moderns,) they received at the theatre door […]1848, Albert Smith, Angus Bethune Reach, The Man in the Moon, volume 3, page 107
    • I was still fresh, which was something; a trifle warm perhaps, and well disposed towards a pint of the dimidium dimidiumque of the ancients had such been available, but, in default of nectar, I sought another comforter, […]1893, Charles Thomas Paske, Frederick George Aflalo, Myamma: A Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, page 153

Origin of dimidium dimidiumque

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from reduplication of Latin dimidium (“half”) with -que (“and”) as a humorous English-to-Latin calque of half and half, once used by students.

Questions about dimidium dimidiumque

What does dimidium dimidiumque mean?
Dimidium dimidiumque means half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar).
What part of speech is dimidium dimidiumque?
Dimidium dimidiumque is a noun.

Words near dimidium dimidiumque in the dictionary

  1. dimidiates
  2. dimidiating
  3. dimidiation
  4. dimidiations
  5. Dimidium
  6. dimidium dimidiumque
  7. Dimili
  8. dimin.
  9. diminazen
  10. diminazene
  11. diminew

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