division
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
in mathematics: P. σχίσις, ἡ (Plato).
act of dividing: P. and V. διαίρεσις, ἡ.
separation: P. χωρισμός, ὁ.
disunion: P. and V. στάσις, ἡ.
distribution: P. νομή, ἡ, διανομή, ἡ.
voting: P. χειροτονία, ἡ.
part separated: P. and V. μέρος, τό, μοῖρα, ἡ, μερίς, ἡ, P. μόριον, τό.
division of an army: P. and V. λόχος, ὁ, τάξις, ἡ, P. τέλος, τό, V. φῦλον, τό (Euripides, Supplices 653).
of a fleet: P. τέλος, τό, V. τάξις, ἡ.
making three divisions of their ships: P. τρία τέλη ποιήσαντες τῶν νεῶν (Thuc. 1, 48).
commander of a division: P. and V. λοχαγός, ὁ.