μόριον (morion)

Where it lives

De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 23 · 125.14/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 13 · 43.73/10k
Parmenides 62 · 40.91/10k
De Respiratione 22 · 36.22/10k
Categories 27 · 26.88/10k
De Memoria et Reminiscentia 4 · 16.65/10k
Protagoras 25 · 14.07/10k
De longitudine et brevitate vitae 2 · 11.36/10k
Meno 10 · 10.22/10k
Statesman 14 · 8.26/10k
Politics 50 · 7.66/10k
Ars Poetica 7 · 6.92/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. μόριον · morion — LSJ

piece, portion, quarters, parts

Dim. of μόρος, piece, portion, Hdt. 7.23, Pl. R. 525e, etc.; of quarters of the world, Hdt. 2.16; parts of a country, Th. 7.58; of an army, Id. 2.39; ψυχῆς μ. E. Andr. 541 (anap.); βραχεῖ μορίῳ τῆς δαπάνης Th. 8.46; ἐν βραχεῖ μ. ἡμέρας Id. 1.85, cf. 141; ψαμάθου μ. βραχύ AP 7.404.7 (Zon.).

II constituent part, member

constituent part, member (opp. μέρος, a mere part), μ. ἀρετῆς, πολιτικῆς, Pl. Lg. 696b, Grg. 463d; εἰς ἃ τὸ εἶδος διαιρεθείη ἂν . . λέγεται μόρια τούτου Arist. Metaph. 1023b18; τέχναι καὶ ἐπιστῆμαι κατὰ μόριον γινόμεναι, opp. περὶ γένος ἕν τι τέλειαι, Id. Pol. 1288b11.

2 the members, parts, de partibus animalium, parts, genitals

esp. of the members or parts of the body, Id. HA 488b29; περὶ ζῴων μορίων, title of the treatise de partibus animalium: in pl., esp. parts or genitals, male and female, ἀνδρεῖα μόρια Luc. Vit.Auct. 6; τὰ γεννητικὰ μ. D.S. 1.85; τὰ μόρια Plu. An seni 2.797f: less freq. in sg., μ. ἀνδρὸς γόνιμον ib. Fort.Rom. 323b, cf. Gal. 12.431; μ. γυναικεῖον Luc. DMort. 9[28].2.

3 member

of persons, member of a council, etc., Arist. Pol. 1282a37.

III part

Gramm., part of speech, D.H. Comp. 6, A.D. Pron. 36.21, al.; in full, μ. λέξεως D.H. Comp. 17; μ. λόγου Plu. QConv. 2.731e.

2 prefix, suffix, part

prefix or suffix, opp. μέρος (part of a word), Corn. ND 13, EM 141.47, 809.9.

IV fraction with, for numerator, fraction in general, denominator, divided by

Arith., fraction with 1 for numerator, Dioph. 1p.6T.; also, fraction in general, Id. 5.20, al.; denominator of a fraction, Id. 1.23, al., Hero *Stereom. 2.16; μορίου or ἐν μορίῳ c. gen., divided by . . , Dioph. 3.19, 1.25.

2. μωρίων · mōriōn — LSJ

fool

fool, or pr. n. Μωρίων, Arc. 17 cod. Oxon. (Cf. Lat. morio.)

In the wild

μόριον · morion Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1505)
μόριον · morion Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1505)
μόριον · morion Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1504)
μορίων · moriōn Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1507)
μορίου · moriou Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 4)
μόριον · morion Aristotle, Ars Poetica 18

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