The corpus record

τμῆσις

tmesis · ἡ

cutting, ravaging, logical division

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Where it lives

Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τμῆσις · tmēsis — LSJ

cutting

cutting, Arist. de An. 412b28; τάφρων PHal. 1.107 (iii B. C.).

2 ravaging

(τέμνω IV. 3) ravaging, γῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Pl. R. 470a.

3 logical division

logical division, Id. Plt. 276d.

II section

= τμῆμα, section, Id. Smp. 190e.

In the wild

τμήσεως · tmēseōs Plato, Republic 5.470 (DIORISIS sentence 3295)
τμήσεις · tmēseis Plato, Statesman 276
τμῆσιν · tmēsin Plato, Symposium 190 (DIORISIS sentence 319)
τμῆσις · tmēsis Plotinus, Enneads 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4550)
τμῆσις · tmēsis Plotinus, Enneads 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4551)

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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