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μεριστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεριστός μεριστή μεριστόν

Structure: μεριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. divided, divisible

Examples

  • "καὶ κατὰ ταῦτα συνέστησεν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ τ’ ἀμεροῦσ αὐτὴν καὶ τοῦ κατὰ τὰ σώματα μεριστοῦ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 1 4:2)
  • 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. divided

Related

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

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