# μερισμός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

μερίζω (merízō, “I divide”) +‎ -μός (-mós, event or process noun suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /me.riz.mós/ → /me.rizˈmos/ → /me.rizˈmos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /me.riz.mós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /me.rizˈmos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /me.rizˈmos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /me.rizˈmos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /me.rizˈmos/

### Noun

μερῐσμός • (merismós) m (genitive μερῐσμοῦ); second declension
* dividing, division; esp. apportionment, allocation; distribution
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 903b
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 1.12.6
** 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 134:ὁ τῶν θεῶν ἔσχατος μερισμὸς ἄχρι τῆς ὕλης προῆλθενho tôn theôn éskhatos merismòs ákhri tês húlēs proêlthen
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 48.2, (of funds)
** Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 364.81, (of money; Ephesus, iii B.C.E.)
** Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 1017.16, (of victims; Sinope, iii B.C.E.)
** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Men at Arbitration 244, (“going shares”):οὐκ ἔνεστιν οὐδὲ εἷς παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ μ.
** partition
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.34.7:τῆς Ἀκαρνανίαςtês Akarnanías
** share of taxation, assessment
*** PTeb. 58.38, (ii B.C.E.)
*** PTeb. 29.15, (ii B.C.E.)
*** PTeb., Ostr.Bodl. ii.18.41, (C.E. ii)
** role, part assigned, in a religious ceremony
*** Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1368.65, (C.E. ii)
** kind of gymnastic
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Thrasybulus 47
* (rhetoric) division of subjects, arrangement, in writing
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Isaeus 3, (plural)
** the art of dividing a whole into its parts
*** 161 CE – 180 CE, Hermogenes, On Types of Style 2.1
* (in logic) assignment of the elements of a contradiction
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1027b.20
** definition
*** 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.62
* (in grammar) classification of parts of speech (hence, concretely, class); distribution of the functions of inflexions; opposed to σύγχυσις (súnkhusis)
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 23.8
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 48.9
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 95.17
** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 109.4
** analysis of a sentence into its component parts, parsing; compare ἐπιμερισμός (epimerismós)
*** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 140.11
*** Sch., D.T. 214.H.
* (in metric) division
** 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.159:ὁ μερισμὸς ὁ τῶν μέτρωνho merismòs ho tôn métrōndivision into feet, scansion
** 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.161:ὁ κατὰ γραμματικὴν μερισμόςho katà grammatikḕn merismósdivision [of a line] into words
* (mathematics) quotient
** Dioph. 4.22

#### Descendants

* → English: merism, merismus, metamerism
* Greek: μερισμός (merismós)
* → Latin: merismos
** → French: mérisme
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: merisme

### References

* “μερισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* G3311 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible