Τμῆσις
cutting, division, section
Translated by Ronald Allen3 Nov 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τμῆσις· ἡ τομή.
Betacode
*tmh=sis: h( tomh/.
Notes (1)
- The headword is a feminine noun (
tmh=sis, -ews, h(/ ) given here in the nominative singular; see generally LSJ s.v. (and for cognates cf. tau 712, tau 713, tau 714, tau 715, tau 717, tau 718). No equivalent entry in other lexica, but ps.-Zonaras glosses the headword withdiai/resis .
There are several instances of the headword in Plato (Symposium 190E, Republic 470A, Politicus 276D), and see also e.g. Aristotle, De anima 412b28 (the strange, but somehow elucidating, comparison of the actuality of wakefulness to the cutting of an axe). - 1The gloss is an articular substantivization (Smyth, §1153) of the adjective
tomo/s, -h/, -o/n (cutting, sharp); see LSJ s.v. ↩
References
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
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