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partite

[ pahr-tahyt ]

adjective

  1. divided into parts, usually into a specified number of parts (usually used in combination):

    a tripartite agreement.

  2. Botany. parted.


partite

/ ˈɑːٲɪ /

adjective

  1. in combination composed of or divided into a specified number of parts

    bipartite

  2. (esp of plant leaves) divided almost to the base to form two or more parts
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of partite1

First recorded in 1560–70, partite is from the Latin word 貹īٳܲ (past participle of 貹īī to divide). See part, -ite 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of partite1

C16: from Latin 貹ī to divide
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It was at Arnstadt that Bach began to compose Variations on Choral melodies, under the title Partite diverse.289 Most of them can be played on the manuals alone.

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The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy.

P. fleshy-fibrous, ovate-shell-shaped, semiorbicular, or cuneiform, simple, lobed or partite, tomentose; g. dense, ochre-fuscous; s. lateral, very short; sp. 5-7 � 3. mollis, Fr.

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The spores in many species amongst the Melanconiei are remarkably fine; those of Stegonosporium have the endochrome partite and cellular.

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When an organ becomes divided it receives at the hands of descriptive botanists the appellations cleft, partite, or sect, according to the depth of the division; hence in considering the teratological instances of this nature, the term fission has suggested itself as an appropriate one to be applied to the subdivision of an habitually entire or undivided organ.

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