διαίρεσις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
διαίρεσις
διαιρέσεως
Structure:
διαιρεσι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- divisibility
- (medicine) dissection
- (medicine) venesection
- (medicine) surgical operation
- (medicine, in the plural) wounds
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- τοιοῦτον ἀκούομεν τὸν Ἀρχιμήδη γενέσθαι καὶ τὸν Κνίδιον Σώστρατον, τὸν μὲν Πτολεμαίῳ χειρωσάμενον τὴν Μέμφιν ἄνευ πολιορκίασ ἀποστροφῇ καὶ διαιρέσει τοῦ ποταμοῦ, τὸν δὲ τὰσ τῶν πολεμίων τριήρεισ καταφλέξαντα τῇ τέχνῃ. (Lucian, (no name) 2:4)
- πρῶτον μὲν κιβδήλῳ τῇ διαιρέσει χρώμενοι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 9 1:2)
- πεμπάζετ’ ὀρθῶσ ἐκβολὰσ ψήφων, ξένοι, τὸ μὴ ’δικεῖν σέβοντεσ ἐν διαιρέσει. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 12:5)
- καὶ τὸ συντιθέναι δὲ καὶ ἐποικοδομεῖν, ὥσπερ Ἐπίχαρμοσ, διά τε τὸ αὐτὸ τῇ διαιρέσει ἡ γὰρ σύνθεσισ ὑπεροχὴν δείκνυσι πολλήν καὶ ὅτι ἀρχὴ φαίνεται μεγάλων καὶ αἴτιον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 31:5)
- ἔστιν δ’ ἐν κώλοισ μὲν λέξισ ἡ τετελειωμένη τε καὶ διῃρημένη καὶ εὐανάπνευστοσ, μὴ ἐν τῇ διαιρέσει ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ περίοδοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅλη κῶλον δ’ ἐστὶν τὸ ἕτερον μόριον ταύτησ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 5:2)
Synonyms
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divisibility
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wounds
