The corpus record

κατακερματ-ίζω

katakermatizo

chop up, cut into pieces

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Where it lives

Sophist 3 · 1.87/10k
Meno 1 · 1.02/10k
Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

κατακερματ-ίζω · katakermat-izō — LSJ

chop up, cut into pieces, fritter, away, to be cut up, cut up, gradually becoming slighter, change into smaller coin

chop up, cut into pieces, freq. metaph., κ. αὐτὴν (sc. ἀρετὴν) κατὰ μόρια Pl. Men. 79c; τὴν μίαν τέχνην εἰς πολλάς Gal. Thras. 24; κ. τὴν τέχνην εἰς μικρά fritter it away, Demetr. Eloc. 76; τὴν μουσικήν Plu. Mus. 2.1142b; τοὺς ἀγῶνας Str. 4.4.2; τὸν λόγον Gal. 1.246:—Pass., to be cut up, φαίνεται εἰς σμικρότερα κατακεκερματίσθαι ἡ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου φύσις Pl. R. 395b; κατακεκερμάτισται . . ὡς οἷόν τε σμικρότατα Id. Prm. 144b; κατακεκ. ἐρωτήσεσι πρὸς ἀποκρίσεις cut up into questions and answers, Id. Sp

In the wild

κατακερματίζῃς · katakermatizēis Plato, Meno 79
κατακεκερμάτισται · katakekermatistai Plato, Parmenides 144
κατακεκερματίσθαι · katakekermatisthai Plato, Republic 3.395 (DIORISIS sentence 1654)
κατακεκερματισμένον · katakekermatismenon Plato, Sophist 225
κατακεκερματίσθαι · katakekermatisthai Plato, Sophist 257
κατακεκερματισμένην · katakekermatismenēn Plato, Sophist 258

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