διαίρεσις

Ancient Greek

noun
Definitions
  • divisibility
  • (medical) dissection
  • division, distribution
  • distinction
  • (logic) division into logical genus and species (γένος and εἶδος)
  • (logic) separation of the subject and predicate
  • (logic) the
  • (rhetoric) division or distribution of an argument into its component subjects or subtopics (known formerly as "heads")
  • (grammar) the resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, diaeresis
  • (grammar) the resolution of one word into two
  • (poetry) division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis
  • (mathematics) transformation of a
  • (military) division of troops in the Roman cohors
  • (music) division separation between sounds, interval

Etymology

Suffix from Ancient Greek διαιρέω (take apart, cleave, divide), αἱρέω (take, grasp, I choose, I take).

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Ancient Greek

αἱρέω

Gloss

take, grasp, I choose, I take

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