Bipartite
/ˌbaɪˈpɑːr.taɪt/noun
Divided into or consisting of two parts.
Did you know?Bipartite comes from Latin bipartitus, a past participle built from bis (“twice”) + partitus (“divided”), so the word was born from the idea of something deliberately split in two.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dwo-
“two”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*per-
“to divide, allot”
Latin
Latin
bis
“twice”
Latin
Latin
partitus
“divided, shared out”
Late Latin
Latin
bipartitus
“divided into two parts”
16th Century
English
bipartite
“divided into two parts”