See μέρος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "τοῦ δὲ λόγου μέρη ἐστὶν ὀκτώ· ὄνομα, ῥῆμα, μετοχή, ἄρθρον, ἀντωνυμία, πρόθεσις, ἐπίρρημα, σύνδεσμος."
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},
{
"form": "toîsĭnĭ",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "toîsĭnĭn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "τὸ μέρος",
"roman": "tò méros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρει",
"roman": "mérei",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρεε",
"roman": "méree",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "τᾰ̀ μέρεᾰ",
"roman": "tằ méreă",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρος",
"roman": "méros",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρει",
"roman": "mérei",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρεε",
"roman": "méree",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dual",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "μέρεᾰ",
"roman": "méreă",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "μέρεος",
"2": "n",
"3": "third",
"gen2": "μέρους"
},
"expansion": "μέρος • (méros) n (genitive μέρεος or μέρους); third declension",
"name": "grc-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "μέρος",
"2": "μέρους",
"dial": "att"
},
"name": "grc-decl"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "μέρος",
"2": "μέρεος",
"dial": "ion"
},
"name": "grc-decl"
}
],
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"part, component, region"
],
"links": [
[
"part",
"part"
],
[
"component",
"component"
],
[
"region",
"region"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"share, portion"
],
"links": [
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"portion",
"portion"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"one's turn"
],
"links": [
[
"turn",
"turn"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"heritage, lot, destiny"
],
"links": [
[
"heritage",
"heritage"
],
[
"lot",
"lot"
],
[
"destiny",
"destiny"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "There are eight parts of speech [= types of word]: noun, verb, participle, article, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction.",
"ref": "170 BCE – 90 BCE, Dionysius Thrax, Art of Grammar 11",
"roman": "toû dè lógou mérē estìn oktṓ; ónoma, rhêma, metokhḗ, árthron, antōnumía, próthesis, epírrhēma, súndesmos.",
"text": "τοῦ δὲ λόγου μέρη ἐστὶν ὀκτώ· ὄνομα, ῥῆμα, μετοχή, ἄρθρον, ἀντωνυμία, πρόθεσις, ἐπίρρημα, σύνδεσμος."
}
],
"glosses": [
"member of a set, kind, type"
],
"links": [
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"kind",
"kind"
],
[
"type",
"type"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mé.ros/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mé.ros/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈme.ros/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "μέρος"
}
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