μόριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from μόρος (móros, “fate, destiny”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, diminutive).

Pronunciation

Noun

μόρῐον • (mórion) n (genitive μορῐ́ου); second declension

1. piece, portion
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.16
     • 7.23
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 525e
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.85
     • 2.39, 7.58, 8.46
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 541
   • Palatine Anthology 7.404.7
2. constituent part, member
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 696b
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 463d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.1023b.18
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.1288b.11
   1. member or part of the body
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.2
   2. (chiefly in the plural) genitals
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Sale of Creeds 6
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.85
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.323b
      • 2.797f
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.431
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 28.2
   3. member of a council
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.1282a.37
3. (grammar)
   1. part of speech
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 6
        • 17
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 36.21
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.731e
   2. particle
   3. prefix or suffix
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 13
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, EM 141.47
        • 809.9
4. (arithmetic)
   1. fraction with 1 for numerator
      • Dioph. 1p.6T
   2. fraction
      • Dioph. 5.20
   3. denominator of a fraction
      • Dioph. 1.23
        • 1.25, 3.19
      • 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Stereometrica 2.16

Declension

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "constituent part, member"): μέρος (méros)
• (antonym(s) of "prefix or suffix"): μέρος (méros)

References

• “μόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bit idem, page 80.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • fraction idem, page 342.
  • fragment idem, page 342.
  • ingredient idem, page 440.
  • morsel idem, page 541.
  • part idem, page 593.
  • piece idem, page 611.
  • portion idem, page 627.
  • section idem, page 747.
  • share idem, page 762.