Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, διαιρέω

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

first letter : entry
entry

I.to take one from another, to cleave in twain, to divide into parts, Il., Hdt.; δ. λαγόν to cut it open, id=Hdt.; δ. πυλίδα to break it open, Thuc.; δ. τὴν ὀροφήν to tear it away, id=Thuc.; δ. τοῦ τείχους to take down part of the wall, make a breach in it, id=Thuc.; τὸ διῃρημένον the breach, id=Thuc.

II.to divide, δύο μοίρας Λυδῶν the Lydians into two parts, Hdt.; so, δ. τριχῆ Plat.; εἰς δύο Dem.:—Mid. to divide for themselves, ναῦς Thuc.: but also to divide among themselves, Hes., Hdt.:—Pass., διῃρημένοι κατ᾽ ἀναπαύλας divided into relays, Thuc.

2.to divide into component parts, Plat.

III.to distinguish, Ar.

2.to determine, decide, Hdt., Aesch., etc.

3.to say distinctly, to define, interpret, Hdt., attic

1 fut. ήσω

2 aor2 -εῖλον

3 aor1 pass. -ῃρέθην

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents: