tripartitus

trĭpartītus or -pertītus, a, um, Part. [ter-partior], divided or divisible into three parts, threefold, tripartite (rare, but good prose):

ea causa tripertita erit in accusatione,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, § 12:

qui tripertitas orbis terrarum oras atque regiones notavit,

id. Sest. 61, 129:

tripartita ab iis inducitur ratio bonorum,

id. Ac. 1, 5, 21:

divisio tripartita (al. tripertita),

id. Off. 3, 2, 9:

exercitus,

Tac. A. 2, 74:

jus privatum, quod tripartitum est,

Just. Inst. 1, 1, 4.— Substt

1.

Trĭpertīta, ōrum, n., the title of a treatise by Sex. Aelius:

exstat illius (Sex. Aelii) liber, qui inscribitur Tripertita,

Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 38.—

2.

Trĭpertīta, ae, f., the title of a comedy by Novius, Non. 218, 15.— Adv.: trĭpartītō ( -pertītō ), in or into three parts:

qui bona dividit tripertito,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 40:

tripartito divisus equitatus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 67; Hirt. B. G. 8, 33:

Caesar partitis copiis... adit tripartito,

Caes. B. G. 6, 6:

aggreditur urbem,

Liv. 21, 7.