merismos

Ancient Greek μερῐσμός (merĭsmós)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛˈrɪs.mɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [meˈriz.mos]

merismos m (genitive merismī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) synonym of partītiō
   • late C.E. 3rd century, Marius Plotius Sacerdos, Artium grammaticarum libri tres [Three books on the grammatical arts], in Heinrich Keil, editor, Grammatici Latini [Latin grammarians], volume VI: Scriptores artis metricae [Writers on the metric art], Lipsia: in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, published 1923, first book, page 460, lines 4–9:

     De merismo. Merismos, quam nos partitionem vocamus, fit hoc modo, cum multae res separantur, ut puta pecora multa partiuntur,
     

     q u a m   s e p t e m   i n g e n t i a   v i c t o r  
     c o r p o r a   f u n d a t   h u m o   e t   n u m e r u m   c u m   n a v i b u s   a e q u e t ,
     e t   s o c i o s   p a r t i t u r   i n   o m n i s :  

     
     non dividit, quia septem sunt, non unum corpus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

• → French: mérisme

• “mĕrismŏs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 970: “mĕrismŏs, i, m. (μερισμός), énumération des parties dʼun tout : Sacerd. Gram. 1, 149.”