μερισμός

μερ-ισμός, ὁ,

• 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.
• • • 2 partition, τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας Plb. 9.34.7.
    • 3 share of taxation, assessment, PTeb. 58.38 (ii B. C.), 29.15 (ii B. C.), Ostr.Bodl. ii 18, 41 (ii A. D.).
    • 4 role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony, IG 2(2).1368.65 (ii A. D.).
    • 5 kind of gymnastic, Gal. Thras. 47.
  • II Rhet., division of subjects, arrangement, in writing, D.H. Is. 3 (pl.).
  • • • b the art of dividing a whole into its parts, Hermog. Id. 2.1.
    • 2 in Logic, assignment of the elements of a contradiction, Arist. Metaph. 1027b20.
    • • b definition, D.L. 7.62.
    • 3 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.
    • • b analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing, ib. 140.11, Sch.D.T. p.214 H.; cf. ἐπιμερισμός.
    • 4 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.
    • 5 Math., quotient, Dioph. 4.22.