diaíresis

From διαιρέω (diairéō, “take apart, cleave, divide”) +‎ -σις (-sis), from δια- (dia-, “apart”) +‎ αἱρέω (hairéō, “take, grasp”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /di.ǎi̯.re.sis/ → /ðiˈɛ.re.sis/ → /ðiˈe.re.sis/

Noun

δῐαίρεσῐς • (diaíresis) f (genitive δῐαιρέσεως); third declension

1. divisibility
2. (medicine) dissection
   1. (medicine) venesection 
   2. (medicine) surgical operation 
   3. (medicine, in the plural) wounds 
3. division, distribution
4. distinction 
5. (logic) division into logical genus and species (γένος (génos) and εἶδος (eîdos))
6. (logic) separation of the subject and predicate 
7. (logic) the fallacy of division 
8. (rhetoric) division or distribution of an argument into its component subjects or subtopics (known formerly as "heads")
9. (grammar) the resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, diaeresis 
10. (grammar) the resolution of one word into two 
11. (poetry) division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide, diaeresis 
12. (mathematics) transformation of a dividend yield 
13. (military) division of troops in the Roman cohors 
14. (music) division or separation between sounds, interval