The corpus record

δια-κρῐτικός

diakritikos

piercing, penetrating

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Where it lives

Statesman 5 · 2.95/10k
Sophist 2 · 1.25/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
Discourses 6 · 0.81/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Metaphysics 3 · 0.38/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

δια-κρῐτικός · dia-kritikos — LSJ

piercing, penetrating, compressing

piercing, penetrating, opp. compressing (συγκριτικός), Pl. Ti. 67e; χρῶμα Arist. Metaph. 1057b8.

2 separative

separative, ἡ -κή, opp. ἡ συγκριτική (q.v.), Pl. Plt. 282b sqq. Adv. -κῶς Democr. 164.

II able to distinguish

able to distinguish, τῆς οὐσίας Pl. Cra. 388c; ὄψις ἕξις δ. σωμάτων Id. Def. 411c: abs., Luc. Herm. 69.

In the wild

διακριτικὸν · diakritikon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2764)
διακριτικὸν · diakritikon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2757)
διακριτικὸν · diakritikon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2757)
διακριτικὰ · diakritika Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 836)
διακριτικὴν · diakritikēn Epictetus, Discourses 1.18 (DIORISIS sentence 891)
διακριτικὴν · diakritikēn Epictetus, Discourses 1.18 (DIORISIS sentence 891)

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