Ancient Greek

Noun

δῐαίρεσῐς • ‎(diaíresis) f ‎(genitive διαιρέσεως); third declension

1. divisibility
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1016b.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 6.4.1027b.19
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 6.4.1027b.30
2. (medicine) dissection
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 4.664
   1. (medicine) venesection
      • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 7.9
   2. (medicine) surgical operation
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Frank Criticism p.56O
   3. (medicine, in the plural) wounds
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library
3. division, distribution
   • (of money) Herodotus, Histories 7.144
   • (of spoils) Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.55
   • (of votes) Aeschylus, The Eumenides 749
4. distinction
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1294a.34
5. (logic) division into logical genus and species (γένος ‎(génos) and εἶδος ‎(eîdos))
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.31
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
6. (logic) separation of the subject and predicate
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Interpretation 1.16a
7. (logic) the fallacy of division
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 33.177a
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
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Onasander, Strategikos 2
9. (grammar) the resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, diaeresis
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 87.2
   • An., Bachm. 2.367.3
10. (grammar) the resolution of one word into two
    • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.492a
    • Tryphon, On Tropes 1.8
11. (poetry) division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis
    • 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music 1.24
    • 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music 47.23
12. (mathematics) transformation of a dividend yield
    • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 5.1
    • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Definitions 15
    • Archimedes, On the Sphere and Cylinder 2.6
13. (military) division of troops in the Roman cohors
    • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 7.14.9
14. (music) division or separation between sounds, interval
    • 400 BCE – 250 BCE, Aristoxenus, Rhyth. 7.18.19

Inflection

Antonyms

• (division): σῠναίρεσῐς ‎(sunaíresis)
• (division into logical genus and species): σῠνᾰγωγή ‎(sunagōgḗ)
• (division of subject and predicate): σῠ́νθεσῐς ‎(súnthesis)
• (fallacy of division): σῠ́νθεσῐς ‎(súnthesis)
• (resolution of a diphthong into two syllables): σῠναίρεσῐς ‎(sunaíresis)
• (interval): δῐᾰ́στημᾰ ‎(diástēma)

Descendants

• Latin: diaeresis
  • English: diaeresis
  • Spanish: diéresis

References

• 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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G1243”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • partition idem, page 595.
  • separation idem, page 754.