Noun: merismos
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | merismos |
| Plural | merismī; merismoe |
Genitive
| Singular | merismī |
| Plural | merismōrum |
Dative
| Singular | merismō |
| Plural | merismīs |
Accusative
| Singular | merismon |
| Plural | merismōs |
Ablative
| Singular | merismō |
| Plural | merismīs |
Vocative
| Singular | merisme |
| Plural | merismī; merismoe |
Sample Sentences
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De merismo. Merismos, quam nos partitionem vocamus, fit hoc modo, cum multae res separantur, ut puta pecora multa partiuntur, (Writers on the metric art) [late C.E. 3rd century, Marius Plotius Sacerdos, Artium grammaticarum libri tres [Three books on the grammatical arts], in Heinrich Keil, editor, Grammatici Latini [Latin grammarians], volume VI: Scriptores artis metricae [Writers on the metric art], Lipsia: in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, published 1923, first book, page 460, lines 4–9:]
Nouns inflected like merismos
melilōtos,
sophos,
ophicardēlos,
diametros,
leontios,
scēptos,
dipsacos,
hoplomachos,
leptoptilos,
crēthmos,
merismos,
dialectos,
zōophthalmos,
cynosbatos,
sacatos,
telirrhizos,
scirros,
scincos,
isthmos,
diadochos, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μερῐσμός (merĭsmós).
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