Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τομός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τομός τομή τομόν

Structure: τομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw의 분사형

Sense

  1. cutting, cut sharpest

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ταύτῃ γὰρ τομαὶ μὲν καὶ καύσεισ καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα πάσχει λύπασ οὐκ ἐμποιοῦσιν, οὐδὲ ἡδονὰσ πάλιν ἐπὶ ταὐτὸν ἀπιούσησ εἶδοσ, μέγισται δὲ αἰσθήσεισ καὶ σαφέσταται καθ’ ὅτι τ’ ἂν πάθῃ καὶ ὅσων ἂν αὐτή πῃ προσβαλοῦσα ἐφάπτηται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 303:2)
  • ἐὰν δὲ κατὰ συμβεβηκόσ, οἱο͂ν εἰ διαιροῖ τοῦ ὑπόποδοσ τὸ μὲν λευκὸν τὸ δὲ μέλαν, τοσαῦται ὅσαι ἂν αἱ τομαὶ ὦσιν. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 203:1)
  • εἴ γε μὴν γραμμὰσ ἢ τὰ τούτων ἐχόμενα λέγω δὲ ἐπιφανείασ τὰσ πρώτασ θήσει τισ ἀρχάσ, ταῦτά γ’ οὐκ εἰσὶν οὐσίαι χωρισταί, τομαὶ δὲ καὶ διαιρέσεισ αἱ μὲν ἐπιφανειῶν αἱ δὲ σωμάτων αἱ δὲ στιγμαὶ γραμμῶν, ἔτι δὲ πέρατα τῶν αὐτῶν τούτων· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 30:3)
  • οὔτε φάρμακα οὔτε καύσεισ οὔτε τομαὶ οὐδ’ αὖ ἐπῳδαὶ αὐτὸν οὐδὲ περίαπτα οὐδὲ ἄλλο τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν ὀνήσει; (Plato, Republic, book 4 133:1)
  • Εἂν δύο ἐπίπεδα παράλληλα ὑπὸ ἐπιπέδου τινὸσ τέμνηται, αἱ κοιναὶ αὐτῶν τομαὶ παράλληλοί εἰσιν. (Euclid, Elements, book 11, type Prop262)

Derived

  • ἄτομος (uncut, indivisible, not capable of being cut/divided into smaller pieces)

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

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