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διαιρετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαιρετικός διαιρετική διαιρετικόν

Structure: διαιρετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diaire/w

Sense

  1. divisible

Declension

First/Second 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.

Examples

  • καὶ διαιρετικόν, τὸ δ’ ὕδωρ κολλητικὸν καὶ σχετικόν, τῇ ὑγρότητι συνέχον καὶ πῆττον· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 9:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο μᾶλλον, τὸ φύσει διαιρετικὸν τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ καὶ τὸ πλεῖστα τούτῳ τὴν φύσιν διανέμειν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 36 4:1)
  • λέγουσι, τὸ πληκτικὸν δὲ καὶ διαιρετικὸν Ἡρακλέα, τὸ δὲ δεκτικὸν Ἄμμωνα, Δήμητρα δὲ καὶ Κόρην τὸ διὰ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ τῶν καρπῶν διῆκον, Ποσειδῶνα δὲ τὸ διὰ τῆσ θαλάττησ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 40 9:1)
  • ὧν ἡ μέν ἐστιν ἑνωτικὴ τὸ δὲ διαιρετικόν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 42:3)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἀπορρέον πνεῦμα τῆσ χιόνοσ ἐστὶ μὲν οἱο͂ν ἀθὴρ τοῦ πάγου καὶ ψῆγμα λεπτομερέστατον, ἔχει δέ τι τομὸν καὶ διαιρετικὸν οὐ σαρκὸσ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀργυρῶν καὶ χαλκῶν ἀγγείων ὁρῶμεν γὰρ ταῦτα μὴ στέγοντα τὴν χιόνα· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. divisible

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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