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Latin
Etymology
Ancient Greek μερῐσμός (merismós)
Pronunciation
Noun
merismos m (genitive merismī); second declension
- (Late Latin) Synonym of partītiō
- late C.E. 3rd century, Marius Plotius Sacerdos, Artium grammaticarum libri tres , in Grammatici Latini , edited by Heinrich Keil, volume VI: Scriptores artis metricae , Leipzig: in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, published 1923, first book, page 460, lines 4–9
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
Descendants
Further reading
- mĕrismŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 970/2: “mĕrismŏs, i, m. (μερισμός), énumération des parties dʼun tout : Sacerd. Gram. 1, 149.”