μερ-ισμός · mer-ismos — LSJ
dividing, division, Pl. Lg. 903b, Thphr. CP 1.12.6, etc.; ὁ τῶν θεῶν ἔσχατος μ. ἄχρι τῆς ὕλης προῆλθεν Dam. Pr. 134; esp. apportionment, allocation of funds, Arist. Ath. 48.2; distribution of money, SIG 364.81 (Ephesus, iii B. C.); of victims, ib. 1017.16 (Sinope, iii B. C.); οὐκ ἔνεστιν οὐδὲ εἷς παρʼ ἐμοὶ μ., ‘going shares’, Men. Epit. 244.
partition, τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας Plb. 9.34.7.
share of taxation, assessment, PTeb. 58.38 (ii B. C.), 29.15 (ii B. C.), Ostr.Bodl. ii 18, 41 (ii A. D.).
role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony, IG 2(2).1368.65 (ii A. D.).
kind of gymnastic, Gal. Thras. 47.
Rhet., division of subjects, arrangement, in writing, D.H. Is. 3 (pl.).
the art of dividing a whole into its parts, Hermog. Id. 2.1.
in Logic, assignment of the elements of a contradiction, Arist. Metaph. 1027b20.
definition, D.L. 7.62.
in Gramm., classification of parts of speech, A.D. Synt. 23.8 (hence, concretely, class, ib. 48.9, 109.4); distribution of the functions of inflexions, opp. σύγχυσις, ib. 95.17.
analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing, ib. 140.11, Sch.D.T. p.214 H.; cf. ἐπιμερισμός.
in Metric, ὁ μ. ὁ τῶν μέτρων division into feet, scansion, S.E. M. 1.159; also ὁ κατὰ γραμματικὴν μ. division of a line into words, ib. 161.
Math., quotient, Dioph. 4.22.