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μερισμός

Pronunciation: /me.riz.mós/

“μερισμός” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. dividing, division; esp. apportionment, allocation; distribution
  2. partition
  3. share of taxation, assessment
  4. role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony
  5. kind of gymnastic
  6. division of subjects, arrangement, in writing
  7. the art of dividing a whole into its parts
  8. assignment of the elements of a contradiction
  9. definition
  10. classification of parts of speech (hence, concretely, class); distribution of the functions of inflexions; opposed to σύγχυσις (súnkhusis)
  11. analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing; compare ἐπιμερισμός (epimerismós)
  12. division
  13. quotient

Etymology

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

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