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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 ἀμεροῦσ καὶ ἀεὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐχούσησ οὐσίασ καὶ τῆσ αὖ περὶ τὰ σώματα γιγνομένησ μεριστῆσ τρίτον ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐν μέσῳ συνεκεράσατο οὐσίασ εἶδοσ, τῆσ τε ταὐτοῦ φύσεωσ αὖ πέρι καὶ τῆσ θατέρου· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 1 4:1)
  • τῇ μίξει τῆσ ἀμερίστου καὶ μεριστῆσ οὐσίασ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 2 1:1)
  • διὰ τοῦτο τῆσ οὐσίασ τὴν ἐκ τῆσ ἀμερίστου καὶ τῆσ μεριστῆσ ὁ θεὸσ ὑποδοχὴν τῷ ταὐτῷ καὶ τῷ θατέρῳ συνέστησεν, ἵν’ ἐν διαφορᾷ τάξισ γένηται τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν γενέσθαι ἐπεὶ χωρὶσ τούτων τὸ μὲν ταὐτὸν οὐκ εἶχε διαφοράν, ὥστ’ οὐδὲ κίνησιν οὐδὲ γένεσιν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 26 8:1)
  • τῆσ ἀμερίστου καὶ ἀεὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐχούσησ οὐσίασ καὶ τῆσ αὖ περὶ τὰ σώματα γιγνομένησ μεριστῆσ τρίτον ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐν μέσῳ συνεκεράσατο οὐσίασ εἶδοσ, τῆσ τε ταὐτοῦ φύσεωσ αὖ πέρι καὶ τῆσ τοῦ ἑτέρου, καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ συνέστησεν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ τε ἀμεροῦσ αὐτῶν καὶ τοῦ κατὰ τὰ σώματα μεριστοῦ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 105:2)

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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