Borrowed from French division, from Latin dīvīsiō,^[1] from dīvidō (“divide”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪvɪzɛ]

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• Rhymes: -ɪzɛ

divize f

1. (military) division (military unit usually consisting of between 10,000 and 30,000 soldiers)
2. (sports) division (group of teams who compete against each other for a championship)
3. (obsolete, mathematics) division (the operation of dividing a number by another)

• “divise”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “divize”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “divize”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From French diviser (“to divide”).

• IPA^(key): /divize/

divize

1. to divide

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 52