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|Full diacritics=μείωσις
|Medium diacritics=μείωσις
|Low diacritics=μείωσις
|Capitals=ΜΕΙΩΣΙΣ
|Transliteration A=meíōsis
|Transliteration B=meiōsis
|Transliteration C=meiosis
|Beta Code=mei/wsis
|Definition=εως, ἡ, (μειόω) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">diminution</b>, opp. αὔξησις, αἱ τῶν ὀστέων μ. Hp.<span class="title">Mochl.</span>24, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cat.</span>15a14</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">GC</span> 320b31</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>4.4.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Oec.</span>p.68</span> J.(pl.), <span class="bibl">Alex.Aphr.<span class="title">in Top.</span> 111.4</span>: voc. μείωσι <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">H.</span>13.7</span>; of the moon, <b class="b2">waning</b>, <span class="bibl">Cleom.2.5</span>, <span class="title">Placit.</span>3.17.3, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>1.14.4</span>, Gal.9.905; <b class="b2">loss</b> of property, etc., Vett. Val.44.14 (pl.), al.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-0117.png Seite 117]] ἡ, das Verringern, Verkleinern, Pol. 9, 43, 5; S. Emp. adv. math. 9, 400.
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|lstext='''μείωσις''': ἡ, ([[μειόω]]) [[ἐλάττωσις]], ὀλιγόστευσις, σμίκρυνσις ἀντίθετ. τῷ [[αὔξησις]], Ἱππ. Μοχλικ. 855, Ἀριστ. Κατηγορ. 14, 1, περὶ Γενέσ. καὶ Φθορ. 1. 5, 11.
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|btext=εως (ἡ) :<br />amoindrissement, diminution.<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[μειόω]].
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