partible
- adjective
- /ˈpɑːrtəbl/
- Specialized
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divisible
- Children probably referred to all the men as "father" and all the women as "mother," even if they knew who their biological mother was. They likely believed in what anthropologists called partible paternity, which is the belief that several different men can all be biological fathers of one child.
Examples
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The practice of partible inheritance resulted in several options for the farm enterprise after inheritance.
Academic text (1991) -
Families also followed the practice of partible inheritance, in which land was divided among heirs (Salamon 1980, 291).
Academic text (1991) -
The family's estate was subject to partible inheritance, allowing all the children to receive equal shares of the property.
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Under partible estate laws, siblings are encouraged to divide their parents' assets fairly amongst themselves.
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The partible nature of the inheritance means that each heir can claim a fraction of the family property.
Synonyms
2
4.6
Able to be taken apart from something else
1
3.7
Can be split into equal parts with nothing left over
1
7.9
Part of something that can be removed from the rest, for example a clause in a contract
Able to be separated or treated as separate from something else
Can be divided into smaller parts
Able to be split into equal parts with nothing left
Able to be separated into smaller parts
Can be split along a natural line or flat surface
Able to be divided from other things and kept on its own
Can be divided into parts for analysis
Antonyms
How Divisible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word partible comes from a Latin root part meaning 'part' or 'piece', which you can also see in partition and partial. So, calling property partible means it can be divided or shared into parts.