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διαίρεσις

Pronunciation: /di.ǎi̯.re.sis/

“διαίρεσις” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 17 meanings in English:

noun

  1. divisibility
  2. dissection
  3. venesection
  4. surgical operation
  5. wounds
  6. division, distribution
  7. distinction
  8. division into logical genus and species (γένος (génos) and εἶδος (eîdos))
  9. separation of the subject and predicate
  10. the fallacy of division
  11. division or distribution of an argument into its component subjects or subtopics (known formerly as "heads")
  12. the resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, diaeresis
  13. the resolution of one word into two
  14. division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis
  15. transformation of a dividend yield
  16. division of troops in the Roman cohors
  17. division or separation between sounds, interval

Etymology

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

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