διαίρεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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δῐαίρεσῐς • (diaíresis) f (genitive δῐαιρέσεως); 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 – 403 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
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical 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
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 267b
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1294a.34
5. (logic) division into logical genus and species (γένος (génos) and εἶδος (eîdos))
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 267d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.31
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 266b
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 CE – 350 CE, 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
    • c. 225 BCE, 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

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

Coordinate terms

• (προσῳδίαι ἑλληνικαί) προσῳδία; βαρεῖα ⟨ ` ⟩, βραχεῖα ⟨ ˘ ⟩, δασεῖα ⟨ ῾ ⟩, διαίρεσις ⟨ ¨ ⟩, κορωνίς ⟨ ᾽ ⟩, μακρά ⟨ ¯ ⟩, ὀξεῖα ⟨ ´ ⟩, περισπωμένη ⟨ ῀ ⟩, προσγεγραμμένη ⟨ ι ⟩, ὑπογεγραμμένη ⟨ ͺ ⟩, ψιλή ⟨ ᾿ ⟩ ^{(Category: grc:Diacritical marks)}

Descendants

• Latin: diaeresis
  • English: diaeresis
  • French: diérèse
  • Portuguese: diérese
  • Spanish: diéresis

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2024)
• G1243 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.