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μετοχ-ή , ἡ, (μετέχω)
A.sharing, participation, Hdt.1.144, Pl.Ep.345a, AP9.316.9 (Leon.); περὶ μετοχῆς τοῦ παραδείσου their shares in the orchard, PCair.Zen.369.2 (iii B.C.); “παρουσία καὶ μ.” Plu.2.945f; τίς μ. δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομίᾳ; 2 Ep.Cor.6.14; κατὰ μετοχήν in virtue of participation in something else, Arist.Metaph.1030a13, Ph.1.47; κατὰ μετοχήν τε καὶ μετουσίαν τῆς ἰδέας Polyxenus ap. Alex. Aphr. in Metaph.84.17; “μ. καὶ θείων καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων πάντων” GDI5040.13, cf. 5042.8 (Hierapytna).
2. Astrol., joint possession or occupation by two planets, Antioch.Astr. in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(3).107,115, Porph.in Ptol.190.
3. partaking of food, τῇ τῶν ζῴων μετοχῇ lamb.VP24.108 codd. (dub.l.).
4. partnership, PRev.Laws14.10 (pl., iii B.C.), etc.
II. Gramm., participle, D.T.634.5, D.H.Comp.2, Plu.2.1011c, A.D.Synt.15.20, al., Poll.7.9, Eust.138.16.
III. compactness, LXX Ps.121(122).3.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (3):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.144
    • New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 6.14
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 2
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