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μεσότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσότης μεσότητος

Structure: μεσοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/sos

Sense

  1. a middle or central position
  2. a mean between two extremes

Declension

Third 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

  • πρότερον δὲ περὶ τῶν μεσοτήτων· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 2:2)
  • ἐκτάττων καὶ τοὺσ τριπλασίουσ, πρῶτον μὲν ἰσχυρίζεται τῇ λεγομένῃ κατὰ μῆκοσ σχίσει τῆσ οὐσίασ, δύο ποιούσῃ μοίρασ ὡσ ἐκ μιᾶσ οὐ τέσσαρασ ἐκ δυεῖν ἔπειτά φησι τὰσ τῶν μεσοτήτων παρεντάξεισ οὕτω λαμβάνειν προσήκειν χώραν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 20 3:1)
  • δῆλον τοίνυν ὅτι αἱ ἀρεταὶ ἢ πᾶσαι ἢ τούτων τινὲσ ἔσονται τῶν μεσοτήτων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 94:2)
  • "ταῖσ αὐταῖσ δ’ ὑπεροχαῖσ ὑπερέχειν καὶ ὑπερέχεσθαι τῆσ ἁρμονίασ τὰ μέρη ὑπὸ τῶν μερῶν καὶ τὰσ μεσότητασ ὑπὸ τῶν μεσοτήτων κατά τε τὴν ἐν ἀριθμοῖσ ὑπεροχὴν καὶ κατὰ τὴν γεωμετρικὴν δύναμιν συμβαίνει. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 2312)
  • ἐν πάσαισ γὰρ ταῖσ εἰρημέναισ ἕξεσι, καθάπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων, ἔστι τισ σκοπὸσ πρὸσ ὃν ἀποβλέπων ὁ τὸν λόγον ἔχων ἐπιτείνει καὶ ἀνίησιν, καί τισ ἔστιν ὁρ́οσ τῶν μεσοτήτων, ἃσ μεταξύ φαμεν εἶναι τῆσ ὑπερβολῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἐλλείψεωσ, οὔσασ κατὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 3:1)

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

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