δια-ζεύγνῡμι (diazeugnumi)

What it meant

δια-ζεύγνῡμι · dia-zeugnymi — LSJ

part, separate, open, take to pieces, dissolve, disjoin, distinguish, to be disjoined, parted, from, to be divorced, disjunctive proposition

part, separate, διὰ γὰρ ζευγνῦσʼ ἡμᾶς πατρίων μελάθρων μητρὸς κατάραι E. El. 1323 (anap.), cf. Charito 8.16; λίθους ἀλλήλων Lib. Or. 30.38; open sluices, PPetr. 3p.121 (iii B.C.); take to pieces, σκάφη Polyaen. 3.11.3; dissolve, θάνατος δ. γάμον Ph. 2.311; disjoin, distinguish, τί τινος ib. 298, al.:—but more freq. Pass., to be disjoined, parted, τινός from one, Aeschin. 2.179; ἀπό τινος X. An. 4.2.10: abs., ὅπως αἱ πρότερον συνήθειαι διαζευχθῶσιν Arist. Pol. 1319b26; to be divorced, Pl. Lg. 784

2 disjunct

τὸ διεζ. σύστημα the disjunct scale, in which two tetrachords were so combined that the first note of one was a tone lower than the last note of the other, opp. συνημμένον, Cleonid. Harm. 10; νήτη διεζευγμένων Euc. Sect.Can. 15; [τετράχορδον] διεζευγμένων Plu. An.procr. 2.1029b.

3 discrete

Math., διεζευγμένη μεσότης, ἀναλογία, discrete mean, proportion, Nicom. Ar. 2.21.

4 reckon, exclusively

Medic., reckon periods exclusively, opp. συνάπτεσθαι, Gal. 9.901.

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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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