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.