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μεριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεριστής μεριστοῦ

Structure: μεριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: meri/zw

Sense

  1. a divider

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μεριστής μεριστᾱ́ μερισταί
Genitive μεριστοῦ μερισταῖν μεριστῶν
Dative μεριστῇ μερισταῖν μερισταῖς
Accusative μεριστήν μεριστᾱ́ μεριστᾱ́ς
Vocative μεριστά μεριστᾱ́ μερισταί

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

  • τῆσ δὲ κατὰ μέροσ δικαιοσύνησ καὶ τοῦ κατ’ αὐτὴν δικαίου ἓν μέν ἐστιν εἶδοσ τὸ ἐν ταῖσ διανομαῖσ τιμῆσ ἢ χρημάτων ἢ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα μεριστὰ τοῖσ κοινωνοῦσι τῆσ πολιτείασ ἐν τούτοισ γὰρ ἔστι καὶ ἄνισον ἔχειν καὶ ἴσον ἕτερον ἑτέρου, ἓν δὲ τὸ ἐν τοῖσ συναλλάγμασι διορθωτικόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 32:1)
  • μεριστὰ ἄρα, φάναι, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἔστιν αὐτὰ τὰ εἴδη, καὶ τὰ μετέχοντα αὐτῶν μέρουσ ἂν μετέχοι, καὶ οὐκέτι ἐν ἑκάστῳ ὅλον, ἀλλὰ μέροσ ἑκάστου ἂν εἰή. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 71:1)
  • Τῶν ὄντων ἐστὶ τὰ μὲν μεριστά, τὰ δὲ ἀμέριστα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 106:7)
  • μεριστὰ δὲ ὅσα ἔκ τινοσ σύγκειται, οἱο͂ν αἵ τε συλλαβαὶ καὶ συμφωνίαι καὶ ζῷα καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ χρυσόσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 106:10)
  • τῶν ὄντων ἄρα τὰ μέν ἐστι μεριστά, τὰ δὲ ἀμερῆ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 107:3)

Synonyms

  1. a divider

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

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