μερισμός

μερίζω (merízō, “I divide”) +‎ -μός (-mós, event or process noun suffix)

μερῐσμός • (merĭsmós) m (genitive μερῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. dividing, division; esp. apportionment, allocation; distribution
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 903b
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 1.12.6
   • 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 134:

     ὁ τῶν θεῶν ἔσχατος μερισμὸς ἄχρι τῆς ὕλης προῆλθεν

     ho tôn theôn éskhatos merismòs ákhri tês húlēs proêlthen

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 48.2, (of funds)
   • Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 364.81, (of money; Ephesus, iii B.C.E.)
   • Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 1017.16, (of victims; Sinope, iii B.C.E.)
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Men at Arbitration 244, (“going shares”):

     οὐκ ἔνεστιν οὐδὲ εἷς παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ μ.

     ouk énestin oudè heîs par’ emoì m.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. partition
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.34.7:

        τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας

        tês Akarnanías

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. share of taxation, assessment
      • PTeb. 58.38, (ii B.C.E.)
      • PTeb. 29.15, (ii B.C.E.)
      • PTeb., Ostr.Bodl. ii.18.41, (C.E. ii)
   3. role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony
      • Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1368.65, (C.E. ii)
   4. kind of gymnastic
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Thrasybulus 47
2. (rhetoric) division of subjects, arrangement, in writing
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Isaeus 3, (plural)
   1. the art of dividing a whole into its parts
      • 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Types of Style 2.1
3. (in logic) assignment of the elements of a contradiction
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1027b.20
   1. definition
      • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.62
4. (in grammar) classification of parts of speech (hence, concretely, class); distribution of the functions of inflexions; opposed to σύγχυσις (súnkhusis)
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 23.8
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 48.9
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 95.17
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 109.4
   1. analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing; compare ἐπιμερισμός (epimerismós)
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 140.11
      • Sch., D.T. 214.H.
5. (in metric) division
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.159:

     ὁ μερισμὸς ὁ τῶν μέτρων

     ho merismòs ho tôn métrōn

     division into feet, scansion

   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.161:

     ὁ κατὰ γραμματικὴν μερισμός

     ho katà grammatikḕn merismós

     division [of a line] into words

6. (mathematics) quotient
   • Dioph. 4.22

• → English: merism, merismus, metamerism
• Greek: μερισμός (merismós)
• → Latin: merismos
  • → French: mérisme
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: merisme

• “μερισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3311 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible