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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

  • ἀόριστον ἦν καὶ ἀστάθμητον, εἶθ’ ὡρίσθη πέρατοσ ἐγγενομένου καὶ εἴδουσ τῷ μεριστῷ καὶ παντοδαπῷ τῆσ κινήσεωσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 27 2:1)
  • καὶ τοὐναντίον ἡ διαιρετικὴ πρὸσ τὰ καθ’ ἕκαστα φέρεται τῷ μεριστῷ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 27 10:1)

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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