ardhe (e), loc. ind. in the middle, Śāk. (ardha in comp. with a subst. means ‘the half part of anything’ [cf. Pāṇ. ii, 2, 2], with an adj. or past Pass. p. [cf. Pāṇ. v, 4, 5] ‘half’; also with an adj. indicating measure [cf. Pāṇ. vii, 3, 26 and 27]; a peculiar kind of compound is formed with ordinals [cf. Pāṇ. i, 1, 23 Comm.] e.g. ardha-tṛtīya, containing a half for its third, i.e. two and a half; ardha-caturtha, having a half for its fourth, three and a half.)