dīmidium ī, n
dimidius, the half : Vix dum dimidium dixeram, was hardly half through , T.: ut ne minus dimidium ad illum perveniret: quos dimidio redderet stultiores, by half : Hibernia dimidio minor quam, etc., Cs.: Maior dimidio, H.: minus dimidio hostium quam antea occisum, L.—Prov.: Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet, well begun is half done , H.