μερισμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
μερίζω (merízō, “I divide”) + -μός (-mós, event or process noun suffix)
Pronunciation
- (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
μερῐσμός • (merismós) m (genitive μερῐσμοῦ); second declension
- dividing, division; esp. apportionment, allocation; distribution
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 903b
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 1.12.6
- 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 134:
- ὁ τῶν θεῶν ἔσχατος μερισμὸς ἄχρι τῆς ὕλης προῆλθεν
- ho tôn theôn éskhatos merismòs ákhri tês húlēs proêlthen
- ὁ τῶν θεῶν ἔσχατος μερισμὸς ἄχρι τῆς ὕλης προῆλθεν
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 48.2, (of funds)
- SIG 364.81, (of money; Ephesus, iii B.C.E.)
- SIG 1017.16, (of victims; Sinope, iii B.C.E.)
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Men at Arbitration 244, (“going shares”):
- οὐκ ἔνεστιν οὐδὲ εἷς παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ μ.
- ouk énestin oudè heîs par᾽ emoì m.
- οὐκ ἔνεστιν οὐδὲ εἷς παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ μ.
- partition
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.34.7:
- τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας
- tês Akarnanías
- τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας
- share of taxation, assessment
- PTeb. 58.38, (ii B.C.E.)
- PTeb. 29.15, (ii B.C.E.)
- PTeb., Ostr.Bodl. ii.18.41, (C.E. ii)
- role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony
- IG 22.1368.65, (C.E. ii)
- kind of gymnastic
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Thras. 47
- (rhetoric) division of subjects, arrangement, in writing
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Isaeus 3, (plural)
- the art of dividing a whole into its parts
- 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Types of Style 2.1
- (in logic) assignment of the elements of a contradiction
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1027b.20
- definition
- 3rd century AD, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.62
- (in grammar) classification of parts of speech (hence, concretely, class); distribution of the functions of inflexions; opposed to σύγχυσις (súnkhusis)
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 23.8
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 48.9
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 95.17
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 109.4
- analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing; compare ἐπιμερισμός (epimerismós)
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 140.11
- 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
Second declension of ὁ μερῐσμός; τοῦ μερῐσμοῦ (Attic)
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
- → English: merism, merismus, metamerism
- Greek: μερισμός (merismós)
- → Latin: merismos
- → French: mérisme
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: merisme
References
- “μερισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3311 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible