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Headword: *melismo/s
Adler number: mu,513
Translated headword: dismembering, dismemberment
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] separation of members. [Formed] out of the [verb] meli/zw ["I dismember"].
Greek Original:
*melismo/s: tw=n melw=n h( diai/resis. e)k tou= meli/zw.
Note:
The headword is ambiguous between "dismembering/dismemberment" and "song" (from me/los, which is likewise ambiguous). Other lexicographers record the ambiguity, as in Herodian, Partitions p. 180 Boissonade: "a tragedy, or the cutting up of meat, spelled with an iota".
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; meter and music
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 12 May 2009@20:22:17.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 12 May 2009@23:18:12.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 May 2009@03:17:56.
David Whitehead on 15 May 2013@05:31:34.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 March 2015@01:31:26.
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