μερισμός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
μερίζω (merízō, “I divide”) + -μός (-mós, event or process noun suffix)
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.riz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.rizˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.rizˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.rizˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.rizˈmos/
Noun edit
μερῐσμός • (merismós) m (genitive μερῐσμοῦ); second declension
- dividing, division; esp. apportionment, allocation; distribution
- Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 364.81, (of money; Ephesus, iii B.C.E.)
- Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 1017.16, (of victims; Sinope, iii B.C.E.)
- partition
- share of taxation, assessment
- role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony
- Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1368.65, (C.E. ii)
- kind of gymnastic
- (rhetoric) division of subjects, arrangement, in writing
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Isaeus 3, (plural)
- the art of dividing a whole into its parts
- (in logic) assignment of the elements of a contradiction
- definition
- (in grammar) classification of parts of speech (hence, concretely, class); distribution of the functions of inflexions; opposed to σύγχυσις (súnkhusis)
- analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing; compare ἐπιμερισμός (epimerismós)
- Sch., D.T. 214.H.
- (in metric) division
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.159:
- ὁ μερισμὸς ὁ τῶν μέτρων
- ho merismòs ho tôn métrōn
- division into feet, scansion
- ὁ μερισμὸς ὁ τῶν μέτρων
- 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.161:
- ὁ κατὰ γραμματικὴν μερισμός
- ho katà grammatikḕn merismós
- division [of a line] into words
- ὁ κατὰ γραμματικὴν μερισμός
- (mathematics) quotient
- Dioph. 4.22
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μερῐσμός ho merismós |
τὼ μερῐσμώ tṑ merismṓ |
οἱ μερῐσμοί hoi merismoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μερῐσμοῦ toû merismoû |
τοῖν μερῐσμοῖν toîn merismoîn |
τῶν μερῐσμῶν tôn merismôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μερῐσμῷ tôi merismôi |
τοῖν μερῐσμοῖν toîn merismoîn |
τοῖς μερῐσμοῖς toîs merismoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μερῐσμόν tòn merismón |
τὼ μερῐσμώ tṑ merismṓ |
τοὺς μερῐσμούς toùs merismoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μερῐσμέ merismé |
μερῐσμώ merismṓ |
μερῐσμοί merismoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → English: merism, merismus, metamerism
- Greek: μερισμός (merismós)
- → Latin: merismos
- → French: mérisme
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: merisme
References edit
- “μερισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3311 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible