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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

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

  • ἔπειτα, ὅτι τῶν ἄλλων φαύλωσ πωσ καὶ ἀπερισκέπτωσ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ ποιουμένων τὰσ αἱρέσεισ τῶν ἐπιστησομένων τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ τῶν μὲν ἀργυρίου τὸ τίμιον ἀξιούντων ἀποκηρύττειν, τῶν δὲ κλήρῳ διαιρούντων, ἐκεῖνοσ οὔτε ὠνητὰσ χρημάτων ἐποίησε τὰσ ἱερωσύνασ οὔτε κλήρῳ μεριστάσ, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἑκάστησ φράτρασ ἐνομοθέτησεν ἀποδείκνυσθαι δύο τοὺσ ὑπὲρ πεντήκοντα ἔτη γεγονότασ τοὺσ γένει τε προὔχοντασ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ἀρετῇ διαφόρουσ καὶ χρημάτων περιουσίαν ἔχοντασ ἀρκοῦσαν καὶ μηδὲν ἠλαττωμένουσ τῶν περὶ τὸ σῶμα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 21 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a divider

Related

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

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