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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

  • τὸ γὰρ ἁπλοῦν καὶ ἀπαθὲσ καὶ καθαρὸν αὐτῆσ καὶ μονοειδὲσ ἀμερὲσ εἴρηται καὶ ἀμέριστον ᾧ καὶ τῶν συνθέτων καὶ μεριστῶν καὶ διαφερομένων ἁμωσγέπωσ θιγοῦσα παύει τὸ πλῆθοσ καὶ καθίστησιν εἰσ μίαν δι’ ὁμοιότητοσ ἕξιν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 21 3:1)
  • ἀνάγκη δὲ τοῦτο συμβαίνειν, τῶν μὲν κινουμένων κατὰ τὸ πρότερον καὶ τὸ ὕστερον, τῶν δὲ διαστημάτων, ἃ διεξίασιν, εἰσ ἄπειρον ὄντων μεριστῶν, ὥσπερ ἀξιοῦσιν οὗτοι. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 43 3:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ πάντων ταῦτα λέγεται, ἀλλὰ τῶν μεριστῶν καὶ μὴ ὅλων· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 42:5)
  • τούτων δὲ τῶν μεριστῶν τὰ μὲν ὁμοιομερῆ, τὰ δὲ ἀνομοιομερῆ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 106:8)
  • τῶν δὲ μεριστῶν τὰ μὲν ὁμοιομερῆ, τὰ δὲ ἀνομοιομερῆ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 107:4)

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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