διά-στᾰσις (diastasis)

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What it meant

διά-στᾰσις · dia-stasis — LSJ

parting, separation, fissures, breach, opening

parting, separation (opp. ἕνωσις, Dam. Pr. 273), ὀρέων Hdt. 7.129; ὀστέων Hp. Art. 20, cf. Gal. 19.461; φάραγγες καὶ δ. τῆς γῆς fissures, Arist. Mete. 350b36; breach in a barrier, Ph. Bel. 98.31; opening, τῆς γένυος Aret. CD 1.3.

b splitting headache

κεφαλῆς δ. splitting headache, ibid. (pl.), v.l. in Pl. R. 407c.

c distension

distension, Arist. PA 681b24; φλεβῶν Aret. SA 2.2.

d retching

δ. κενεή retching, ib. 2.7.

e

= διαστολή, of the pulse, Zeno ap. Gal. 8.736.

f expansion

expansion of air, opp. πίλησις, Ph. Bel. 77.23.

2 setting at variance, cause of breach

setting at variance, τοῖς νέοις ἐς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους Th. 6.18, cf. Plu. Cor. 16; cause of breach, Arist. Pol. 1303b15.

b contrasting

contrasting, Pl. R. 360e.

3 difference, contrast

difference, contrast, Arist. Cael. 312a13.

4 disagreement

disagreement, δ. ἢ στάσις Pl. Lg. 744d, cf. Arist. Pol. 1296a8, 1300b37.

5 divorce

divorce, Plu. Aem. 5, etc.

II

Gramm., of vowels, διαίρεσις κατὰ διάστασιν (as in πάϊς) A.D. Pron. 87.4.

b written as two words

τὰ κατὰ δ. forms written as two words, e.g. ἐμέθεν αὐτῆς ib. 114.11.

III interval, extension, dimension, tridimensionality

interval, Pl. Ti. 36a, etc.; in Music, Aristox. Harm. p.4 M., al.; of space, extension, Arist. Top. 142b5, al.; dimension, τὰς αὐτὰς διαστάσεις εἰς βάθος εἰληφός Epicur. Nat. 2.7, cf. Gal. 11.503, S.E. M. 3.19; ἡ δ. ἡ τριχῇ tridimensionality, Plot. 1.2.6, cf. 6.6.17, Porph. Sent. 35, Dam. Pr. 375.

IV

= διακόσμησις, Antipho Soph. 23. (Freq. confused with διάτασις, wh. shd. perh. be read in I.1.b, c, d.)

In the wild

διάστασιν · diastasin Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 89)
διάστασιν · diastasin Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 3135)
διαστάσει · diastasei Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1165b (DIORISIS sentence 3167)
διαστάσεις · diastaseis Aristotle, Politics 1296a (DIORISIS sentence 1638)
διαστάσεις · diastaseis Aristotle, Politics 1300b (DIORISIS sentence 1789)
διάστασιν · diastasin Aristotle, Politics 1303b (DIORISIS sentence 1883)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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