διαίρεσις - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From διαιρέω (diairéō, “take apart, cleave, divide”) +‎ -σις (-sis), from δια- (dia-, “apart”) +‎ αἱρέω (hairéō, “take, grasp”).

δῐαίρεσῐς • (dĭaíresĭs) f (genitive δῐαιρέσεως); third declension

1. divisibility
2. (medicine) dissection
   1. (medicine) venesection
   2. (medicine) surgical operation
   3. (medicine, in the plural) wounds
3. division, distribution
   • (of money) Herodotus, Histories 7.144
   • (of spoils) Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.55
   • (of votes) Aeschylus, The Eumenides 749
4. distinction
5. (logic) division into logical genus and species (γένος (génos) and εἶδος (eîdos))
6. (logic) separation of the subject and predicate
7. (logic) the fallacy of division
8. (rhetoric) division or distribution of an argument into its component subjects or subtopics (known formerly as "heads")

   • Hermogenes of Tarsus, Progymnasmata 7

   • Hermogenes of Tarsus, On legal issues 1
9. (grammar) the resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, diaeresis
   • An., Bachm. 2.367.3

10. (grammar) the resolution of one word into two
    • Tryphon, On Tropes 1.8

11. (poetry) division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis
12. (mathematics) transformation of a dividend yield
13. (military) division of troops in the Roman cohors
14. (music) division or separation between sounds, interval

• (antonym(s) of “division”): σῠναίρεσῐς (sŭnaíresĭs)
• (antonym(s) of “division into logical genus and species”): σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ)
• (antonym(s) of “division of subject and predicate”): σῠ́νθεσῐς (sŭ́nthesĭs)
• (antonym(s) of “fallacy of division”): σῠ́νθεσῐς (sŭ́nthesĭs)
• (antonym(s) of “resolution of a diphthong into two syllables”): σῠναίρεσῐς (sŭnaíresĭs)
• (antonym(s) of “interval”): δῐᾰ́στημᾰ (dĭắstēmă)

• (προσῳδίαι ἑλληνικαί) προσῳδία; βαρεῖα ⟨ ` ⟩, βραχεῖα ⟨ ˘ ⟩, δασεῖα ⟨ ῾ ⟩, διαίρεσις ⟨ ¨ ⟩, κορωνίς ⟨ ᾽ ⟩, μακρά ⟨ ¯ ⟩, ὀξεῖα ⟨ ´ ⟩, περισπωμένη ⟨ ῀ ⟩, προσγεγραμμένη ⟨ ι ⟩, ὑπογεγραμμένη ⟨ ͺ ⟩, ψιλή ⟨ ᾿ ⟩ ^{(Category: grc:Diacritical marks)}

• → Latin: diaeresis
  • → English: diaeresis
  • → French: diérèse
  • → Portuguese: diérese
  • → Spanish: diéresis

• “διαίρεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διαίρεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διαίρεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 1 διαίρεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1243 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • partition idem, page 595.
  • separation idem, page 754.