# dividend
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French dividende, from Latin dividendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of divido (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide +‎ -end.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

dividend (plural dividends)
* (finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
** 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
* (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.
    In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
* (figuratively) Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)
    His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.
** 2012, Cameron Haley, Retribution‎:That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.
** 2014, Bobby Adair, Slow Burn: Dead Fire, Book 4:‎:The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.
** 2016, Christina Stead, The Beauties and Furies‎, page 163:'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'

#### Hyponyms

* (finance: pro rata payment): regular dividend, special dividend

#### Derived terms

* cum dividend
* demographic dividend
* dividend equalisation reserve
* dividend king
* dividendless
* dividend queen
* dividend reinvestment plan
* dividend reinvestment program
* dividend stripping
* ex dividend
* liar's dividend
* pay dividends
* peace dividend
* predividend
* splividend

#### Translations
### Verb

dividend (third-person singular simple present dividends, present participle dividending, simple past and past participle dividended)
* (transitive) To pay out a dividend.
** 1997, Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith, page 40:He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]
** 2007, Kevin K. Boeh, Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 324:Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.

### See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
* successor
* addition, summation:
    (augend) + (addend) = (total)
    (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
* subtraction:
    (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
* multiplication, factorization:
    (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
    (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
* division:
    (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
    (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
       Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
* exponentiation:
    (base) = (power)
* root extraction:
    √ (radicand) = (root)
* logarithmization:
    log$_{(base)}$ (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [di.βiˈðen]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [di.viˈðent]

### Noun

dividend m (plural dividends)
* (arithmetic) dividend
* (finance) dividend

#### Related terms

* dividir

### Further reading

* “dividend” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French dividende.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.viˈdend/

### Noun

dividend n (plural dividende)
* dividend

#### Declension
### Further reading

* dividend in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Swedish
### Noun

dividend c
* (arithmetic) dividend
* (finance, Finland) dividend

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | dividend | dividends |
| singular | definite | dividenden | dividendens |
| plural | indefinite | dividender | dividenders |
| plural | definite | dividenderna | dividendernas |

#### Synonyms

* (finance): utdelning