μόριον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, prop. ''Dim. of'' [[μόρος]],<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[piece]], [[portion]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.23, Pl.''R.''525e, etc.; of [[quarter]]s of the [[world]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.16; [[part]]s of a [[country]], Th.7.58; of an [[army]], Id.2.39; ψυχῆς μόριον [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Andromache|Andr.]]''541 (anap.); βραχεῖ μορίῳ τῆς δαπάνης Th.8.46; ἐν βραχεῖ μ. ἡμέρας Id.1.85, cf. 141; ψαμάθου μόριον βραχύ ''AP''7.404.7 (Zon.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[constituent part]], [[member]] (opp. [[μέρος]], a mere part), μόριον [[ἀρετή|ἀρετῆς]], [[πολιτική|πολιτικῆς]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''696b, ''Grg.''463d; εἰς ἃ τὸ εἶδος διαιρεθείη ἂν… λέγεται μόρια τούτου [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1023b18; τέχναι καὶ ἐπιστῆμαι κατὰ μόριον γινόμεναι, opp. περὶ γένος ἕν τι τέλειαι, Id.''Pol.''1288b11.<br><span class="bld">2</span> especially of the [[member]]s or [[part]]s of the [[body]], Id.''HA''488b29; [[Περὶ ζῴων μορίων]], title of the [[treatise]] [[Parts of Animals]], Lat. [[De partibus animalium]]: in plural, esp. [[parts]] or [[genitals]], [[male]] and [[female]], [[ἀνδρεῖα μόρια]] Luc.''Vit.Auct.''6; [[τὰ γεννητικὰ μόρια]] = [[sexual organs]], [[genitals]] [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]]1.85; τὰ μόρια Plu.2.797f: less freq. in sg., [[μόριον ἀνδρὸς γόνιμον]] = [[membrum virile]] ib.323b, cf. Gal. 12.431; [[μόριον γυναικεῖον]] = [[pudenda muliebria]] Luc.''DMort.''28.2.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of persons, [[member]] of a [[council]], etc., [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Politica|Pol.]]''1282a37.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Gramm., [[part of speech]], [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''6, A.D.''Pron.''36.21, al.; in full, [[μόριον λέξεως]] [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]'' 17; [[μόριον λόγου]] Plu.2.731e.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[prefix]] or [[suffix]], opp. [[μέρος]] ([[part]] of a [[word]]), Corn.''ND''13, ''EM''141.47,809.9.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> Arith., [[fraction]] with 1 for [[numerator]], Dioph. 1p.6T.; also, [[fraction]] in general, Id.5.20,al.; [[denominator]] of a [[fraction]], Id.1.23, al., Hero ''*Stereom''.2.16; [[μορίου]] or [[ἐν μορίῳ]] c. gen., [[divided by]]... Dioph.3.19, 1.25.