διαίρ-εσις (diairesis)

Where it lives

Paralipomenon I 22 · 16.55/10k
1 Corinthians 3 · 4.44/10k
Sophist 7 · 4.37/10k
De Interpretatione 2 · 3.21/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 17 · 3.06/10k
Categories 3 · 2.99/10k
Paralipomenon II 5 · 2.54/10k
Statesman 4 · 2.36/10k
Metaphysics 18 · 2.29/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 22 · 2.06/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διαίρ-εσις · diair-esis — LSJ

divisibility

divisibility, Arist. Metaph. 1016b4, al.

2 dissection

Medic., dissection, ζῴων Gal. 4.664.

b venesection

venesection, Antyll. ap. Orib. 7.9.2.

c surgical operation

surgical operation, Phld. Lib. p.56O.

d wounds

pl., wounds, Diod.Rh. p.53H.

II dividing, distribution, in the reckoning, on either side

dividing, distribution, of money, Hdt. 7.144; of spoil, X. Cyr. 4.5.55; ἐν διαιρέσει [ψήφων] in the reckoning of the votes on either side, A. Eu. 749; ἀντίγραφον διαιρέσεως BGU 1013.1 (i A.D.).

III distinction

distinction, ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως Pl. Sph. 267b; [τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας] Arist. Pol. 1294a34.

IV division

in Logic, division of genus into species, τῶν γενῶν κατʼ εἴδη δ. Pl. Sph. 267d; ἡ διὰ τῶν γενῶν δ. Arist. APr. 46a31; opp. συναγωγαί, Pl. Phdr. 266b.

b separation

separation of subject and predicate, περὶ σύνθεσιν καὶ δ. ἐστι τὸ ψεῦδος καὶ τὸ ἀληθές Arist. Int. 16a12.

2 division

ὁ παρὰ τὴν δ. [λόγος] the fallacy of division (cf. σύνθεσις), Id. SE 177a33.

V division, distribution

Rhet., division or distribution into heads, Hermog. Prog. 7, Stat. 1, Onos. 2 tit., etc.

VI resolution

Gramm., resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, A.D. Pron. 87.2, al.; of one word into two, κατὰ διαίρεσιν ἀναγνωστέον Ath. 11.492a, cf. Trypho Trop. 1.8.

VII division of a line at the close of a foot, diaeresis

in Metric, division of a line at the close of a foot, diaeresis, Aristid.Quint. 1.24.

VIII transformation

Math., δ. λόγου transformation of a ratio dividendo, Euc. 5Def. 15; κατὰ διαίρεσιν Archim. Sph.Cyl. 2.6.

IX division

division of troops, of the Roman cohors, J. AJ 7.14.9.

In the wild

διαιρέσει · diairesei Aeschylus, Eumenides 748–749
διαιρέσεων · diaireseōn Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2342)
διαίρεσιν · diairesin Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2358)
διαιρέσει · diairesei Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2151)
διαιρέσεις · diaireseis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2375)
διαιρέσεως · diaireseōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2338)

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